The vessel meets widely accepted traits of a dark fleet tanker. It appears on a list of vessels suspected of trading Iranian oil in defiance of US sanctions, sails under a flag of convenience and has previously turned off its transponder to avoid detection.
A dark-fleet oil tanker that was recently involved in a crash in Southeast Asia is now on its way to China.
Ceres I, an ageing very-large crude carrier that’s suspected of transporting sanctioned oil, is en route to Zhoushan in eastern China, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.
