Russian Oil Cargo Not Allowed Into Chinese Port

He sailed on tankers for two and a half months.

On December 9, a Fortis tanker with a shipment of Rosneft oil under U.S. sanctions anchored off the coast of the Chinese port of Zhizhao, but unloading has not begun, Bloomberg reported. The ship delivered about 720,000 barrels of oil shipped Sept. 22 from the Russian port of Ust-Luga on the Baltic Sea on the tanker Ailana. The journey took about 11 weeks instead of the usual two months.

It remains unknown whether Fortis will unload the Russian crude at Zhizhao, given that almost all terminals to receive imported crude at that port are under U.S. restrictions due to Iranian oil operations.

According to data from ship tracking services, the tanker Ailana after leaving Ust-Luga passed the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal and in late October arrived in India's Mumbai, where it remained motionless for a long time. Almost two weeks later, the oil was transferred to Fortis, owned by a Vietnamese company, on the high seas. The Fortis subsequently called at Yeosu in South Korea and, according to Kpler, reloaded some of the cargo onto another vessel before heading toward the Chinese coast and arriving in the Zhizhao area.

As Bloomberg notes, the Rosneft oil shipment spent nearly a month longer than usual in transit before reaching a potential unloading point, reflecting the uncertainty caused by tougher U.S. sanctions on Russian oil trade.

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