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This year, the Russian authorities are investigating a sixth alleged explosion on a tanker that serves a Russian port after an ammonia leak on Sunday was associated with an obvious explosion of a gas tanker in the Baltic Hafen of VAT-Luga.
The incident on the Eco magician, which belonged to Greece StealthGas, came nine days after A Explosion on the Greek crude oil tanker Vilamoura in the Mediterranean.
There was speculation that the explosions are connected to Ukraine, although the Ukrainian authorities have rejected a statement and there are competing theories, including connections between many of the affected ships and Libya.
In a statement on Sunday, the owners of the Vilamoura revealed that the testing of the ship in the port in Piraeus had confirmed that the ship was damaged by an external source, which it described it as a “unidentified explosive device”.
All explosions except for an explosion affected the ships that belonged to Greek and Cypriot shipowners that are not under sanctions. One of the ship’s and koala, a crude oil anchor who was damaged in a explosion in Vust-Luga in February in May under EU sanctions for the improper transport of Russian oil.
In a statement published on Sunday on the telegram channel of the Russian Ministry of Transport, it states that on July 6, a “small ammonia leak” took place on the basis of an “incident during the shop and relief process on the Eco Assistant tanker”. The explanation states that the 23 crew members have certainly left the ship that no injuries were reported and emergency services worked to contain the consequences.
It also means that an “emergency meeting” was chaired by Minister Roman Starovoyt in the Ministry of Transport, which was released by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the decree did not mention a loss of trust as the reason for his release.
There were reports that the ammonia leak was due to an explosion, including several Russian telegram channels with connections to law enforcement authorities. The cause remains unknown, although a security expert said that the damage was to be in the engine compartment of the ship, which indicates that it was not a problem with the freight.
There was no answer to inquiries about comments that were sent to stealth gas and one of his leaders on Sunday
While most of the controversy around Russia’s continued oil trade surrounds the ships in the “Dark fleet” of vessels With uncertain property, the obvious explosions this year have largely affected the mainstream owners.
Stealth gas is listed on the NASDAQ exchange of the US stock exchange.
All hits of the ships have taken up charges from Russian ports, although the available public information show that they have collected loads RussiaLike oil from Kazakhstan.
Ammonia, the cargo that the ECO converter has loaded, is not affected by sanctions against Russian oil. The ECO assistant is the first gas tanker to be hit. The other explosions were all on crude oil or oil product tankers.
The security expert said that the incident was “with quite certainty” a result of an attack and proposed a “command attack deep into the Russian territory”.
He added that those responsible rejected the idea that there could be legitimate trade in Russia.
The GUR, the management of the Ukrainian military information, which some observers may have proposed, rejected a statement. The agency carried out numerous bold operations deep in Russia and Russian controlled parts of Ukraine throughout the war, including several for which it claimed a credit. However, there is no evidence that you bind to these ship explosions.
