Russia Adds Four LNG Carriers to Arctic Export Fleet

Russia appears to have recently added four LNG carriers to its fleet of tankers exporting cargoes from the sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project, a Bloomberg analysis of shipping data showed on Monday. Four LNG carriers, Kosmos, Merkuriy, Orion, and Luch have recently changed their ownership and management to little known companies.

They were previously servicing Oman’s LNG exports and were managed or owned by Oman Ship Management Co, according to Bloomberg’s findings.

The EU, and the UK. The Kosmos carrier has also recently switched to Russian flag, Bloomberg’s analysis shows. Russia relies on a growing number of shadow fleet tankers to ship its sanctioned LNG out of the Arctic area in north Russia, where exports are made possible thanks to ice-breaker class vessels.