The ships Chris refers to were intercepted/blocked in December and January, when an actual naval blockade was still in place, and are not new events as Chris implies.
>From the source that VA used: "...Olina’s journey was interrupted when US Forces boarded the ship in Caribbean waters a few days after the country’s strongman Maduro was removed from power. "At the time, US President Donald Trump sent the sanctioned ship back to Venezuela as part of his move to assert control of the nation’s oil sales. It’s discharging 713,000 barrels on Thursday. "Earlier this week another vessel from the global dark fleet, identified as Galaxy 3, returned almost 1 million barrels. The ship has been stranded in Venezuelan since the end of last year..." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/ghost-oil-tankers-reversal-signals-venezuela-s-long-road-ahead -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41735): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41735 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119336058/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
