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Russian Dark Fleet Estimates Range ~400-600

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Estimates on Russian shadow fleet:

  • Splash247 as of Monday – totalled 421 ships. For dirty tankers, this comprises 150 aframaxes, 49 suezmaxes and 104 VLCCs, while on the clean front, has counted five handies, 17 LR1s, three LR2s, and 93 MRs.
  • TankerTrackers counts 539 total - 186 VLCC/ULCC's (2 new ones just this past week), 107 Suezmax, 142 Aframax, 31 Panamax, 73 Handies.
  • Trafigura last week placed the fleet estimate at around 600 vessels.

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