A new shipment of Russian fuel will arrive in Cuba this Sunday, April 14. This is the third ship from the same origin that arrives at the Island in just two weeks.
This time, the person in charge of transporting the oil is the petrochemical vessel Transsib Bridge. According to Diario de Cuba, the ship will arrive with around 290,000 barrels.
Jorge Piñón, director of the Energy Program for Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Texas, commented on the topic. The expert stated that “that ship loaded on March 12 in the Russian port of Nakhodka, in the Sea of Japan. Last Thursday she crossed the Panama Canal and continued towards the Island.”
“The Nakhodka terminal, in Primorsk, stores and distributes refined products from the Rosneft refinery in Komsomolsk,” Piñón revealed to the press itself.
Meanwhile, according to the ship monitoring platform Vessel Finder, the ship must arrive at the Cuban port this Sunday, April 14. That same ship made a trip to the Island in the year 2022. Then, its journey was very similar to the current one.
Oil with various flags
The ship that is regarding to touch Cuban waters flies under the flag of Gabon and is operated by the Russian company Sovcomflot. This state company is under the scrutiny of sanctions from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Hence, it lost insurance from its Western counterparts for its entire fleet following the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The option was none other than to resort to chartered ships of a different flag.
Just a week ago, the tanker Nordic, flying the Liberian flag, arrived at the port of Matanzas. The cargo was 60,000 tons of oil. Meanwhile, at the end of March another ship arrived with Russian fuel with 650,000 barrels.
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