Christiaan Triebert
There's lots of reporting about shadow tankers, but far less is about the people who crew them. @polinaivanovva takes a look at the crew of the MARINERA (fka BELLA 1). How was the crew recruited? What were the conditions? What does it keep to keep an aging vessel on the move?
Polina Ivanova
There were 28 sailors aboard the Bella 1 when the sanctioned, 330m-long supertanker turned around and made a mad dash across the Atlantic, US Coast Guard in pursuit. In the @FTMag this weekend — life aboard the shadow fleet, and in the firing line: https://as.ft.com/r/31e28d68-451a-4049-aba2-b4f529f9e97e