A tanker with heating oil produced in Russia arrived in Cuba on ThursdayTransporting supplies for the island’s power plants and To offer Moscow a market for its products, which the West rejected after the invasion of Ukraine.
the tanker Aframax Suvorovsky Prospect, with Liberian flag, arrived in the Cuban port of Matanzas with around 700,000 barrels of fuel oilloaded in the Russian port of Ust-Luga, the R agency reported.
The shipment is valued at approximately $70 million at market pricesAccording to the message.
According to maritime database Equasis, the ship is owned by a unit of Russia’s leading shipping conglomerate Sovcomflot. Sovcomflot is under British, Canadian and US sanctions and has lost Western companies’ insurance for its fleet.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry did not respond to a R request for comment on the matter. The official media did not report the arrival of the ship either.
Havana, which depends on Venezuela as its main source of energy imports, has been forced to make expensive one-off fuel purchases while his political ally struggles to satisfy his own internal demands.
Some shipments have arrived from Russia, making the island one of the largest importers of Russian fuel in Latin America this yearaccording to ship tracking data.
Venezuela has sent Cuba about 56,610 barrels of crude oil, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and heating oil per day (bpd) per day (bpd) so far this year, slightly below 2021 levels, according to documents and data from state oil company PDVSA.
Havana supported the invasion of Ukraine from the start and allied itself with Moscow on an international level.vote against or abstain from resolutions condemning the Kremlin in multilateral organizations.
The United States and Canada imposed sanctions on Russian oil and fuel after the invasion, while Europe and the United Kingdom are heading towards an embargo on imports of Russian crude later this year.