The ship “Merope” anchors in the Gulf of Ceuta, Spain after carrying out oil transfer operations in international waters (March 14, 2023)
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Artificial intelligence can detect covert cargo movements between “dark ships” – vessels that have switched off their identification transponders. This could make it much easier to track shadow fleets that secretly transfer oil in defiance of international sanctions.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in earnest, the number of such sea-based ship-to-ship transfers has increased rapidly. European Union The ban on the import of Russian crude oil. Even though it’s a G7…
Source: www.newscientist.com