Germany charged that a heavily loaded tanker adrift off its northern coast Friday was part of the "shadow fleet" Moscow uses to avoid sanctions on its oil exports.

After hours of towing, a German maritime emergency team brought the oil ... ships can wait safely at anchor outside a port. It is still unclear when and where the 274-meter-long (about 900-foot ...

Oil tanker rates jumped as the Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia’s petroleum trade threaten to cut the supply of ...

In response, Russia has relied on tankers with opaque ownership or without proper insurance to continue lucrative oil exports. The number of ships in the “shadow fleet” has exploded since the ...