"These green symbols are the shadow fleet, he says. More than a dozen green triangles representing shadow fleet vessels pop up around the coastline of southern Sweden alone. Every day hundreds of shadow fleet ships unregulated ageing tankers from around the world in varying states of repair carrying oil from Russia to states including China and India are moving through a relatively narrow passage in the Baltic."
"Sea traffic in the Baltic has increased somewhat copiously with the whole shadow fleet, but also with Nato ships, defence ships and the coastguard, says the vessel's captain, Joakim Hakansson. So we try to get far out and show that we're here. In the Bornholm strait, where shipping traffic is divided like a motorway, shadow fleet vessels pass less than 10 nautical miles off the coast of Sweden. In our vicinity off the rocky Blekinge archipelago, there are two."
The Swedish coastguard monitors numerous shadow-fleet vessels on live maps near southern Sweden. Unregulated ageing tankers carry Russian oil to destinations including China and India while changing identities and flags to evade sanctions. Some shadow ships operate with Russian military accompaniment or aerial surveillance. Sea traffic in the Baltic has increased with the arrival of the shadow fleet alongside Nato, defence and coastguard vessels. Coastguard patrols follow suspicious tankers in busy lanes such as the Bornholm strait where shadow vessels pass within ten nautical miles of the Swedish coast.
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