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Satellite Data Reveals First Venezuelan Tanker Confiscated by American Authorities is Now Off Texas.
American personnel boarding the deck of the Skipper on December 10th.
Satellite imagery and vessel monitoring information has verified that the oil tanker Skipper – the first vessel apprehended by the US for allegedly transporting embargoed oil from the Venezuelan regime – is now off the coast of Texas.
Vantor orbital photographs dated 21 December shows the ship is in the vicinity of Galveston, while AIS vessel-tracking feeds from a maritime data service currently places the vessel about 80km from the coast.
The Skipper was seized by US authorities on 10 December and has been blacklisted by multiple governments. When it was intercepted, it was falsely sailing under the ensign of Guyana.
This seizure was succeeded by the interception of a another tanker, the Centuries tanker. It – unlike the Skipper – was not under sanctions when it was brought under American control.
American agencies are now targeting a third such vessel, which has been named by the maritime risk group a risk firm as the Bella 1 tanker. The US President stated recently that “it will ultimately be secured”.
Writing on X, the maritime monitoring group noted the Bella 1 has been “underway for 39 days” and, at an average speed of 11 knots, may have “approximately a month of fuel left unless her speed drops”.
The monitoring service further stated the vessel is “probably heading south-east towards the South African coast”.
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