Des informations publiées le 30 novembre dernier par Reuters mention that ship-to-ship (STS) transfers of Russian naphtha have taken place in recent months near the Senegalese port of Dakar.

Le volume de naphta exporter directemet vers le Brésil par la Russie est tombé à 35,000 tons per month since September, lower than 100,000 tons per month previously. 160,000 tons of naphtha were simultaneously loaded between September and November at the Russian port of & o; Oust-Luga, on the Baltic, to be transferred near Dakar to other tankers such as the Liberian-flagged Pantera, owned and operated, by Indian interests, or the Minerva Mediterranea, operating under the Maltese flag, owned and managed by Greek companies. Data from Vortexa cited on November 24 mention that in Europe, one million barrels of Russian products (fuel, diesel...) now give rise, each month, to STS operations near the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios, in the Aegean Sea