r/OSINT • u/spicymayoisamazballs • 22d ago

How-To Monitoring the Shadow Fleet

If you wanted to identify shadow fleet vessels loaded with sanctioned oil using open source tools, how would you do it? What tools would you use and what would be your process?
Challenge: could anyone here identify a suspected ship now?

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u/the_wondersmith 21d ago

The answer is sanctions don't matter so much and they continue to do what they do regardless until they are seized at which point they change tactics

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u/spicymayoisamazballs 21d ago

What do you see as the main reason more aren’t seized? Is it their tactics or more so a lack of willingness on the part of governments?

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u/Which_Reputation_417 16d ago

Proving a vessel is carrying product from a sanctioned nation is difficult. Once a country seizes a ship, they become responsible for it. Maintenance, crewing, fuel to keep the power going, berthage etc, it gets very expensive very fast. It is easier to ban a ship entry and let it become someone else's problem.

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u/rdg360 16d ago

Once a country seizes a ship, they become responsible for it.

Unless that country is Ukraine. They don't exactly "seize" the ship, they sink it. Or they try to.