Russian Shadow Fleet’s New Weak Link: Insurance

Russian Shadow Fleet’s New Weak Link: Insurance

By: Tim DaissRussia’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet has survived nearly two years of tightening Western restrictions, US secondary sanctions, and G7 price-cap enforcement. But the next pressure point isn’t tankers, transponders, or AIS manipulation, it’s insurance, the least visible but most structurally vulnerable part of Moscow’s oil export machine. Fresh investigations show that much of the fleet moving Russian crude and fuel around the worl…