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Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%Dry Bulk Freight Index2,490 -1.3%Capesize3,538 -2.8%Panamax2,124 +0.7%Dirty Tanker Index1,935 +1.1%Supramax1,668 -0.1%Clean Tanker Index1,280 -1.4%Handysize947 +0.2%
Crude Oil Tanker🇬🇾 GuyanaActive

SKIPPER

IMO
9304667
MMSI
750330000
Call Sign
8RAK1

Technical Specifications

Key Figures

Gross Tonnage
160,098GT
Deadweight
310,309DWT
Length Overall
332.99m
Beam
60m
Draught
9.2m
Year Built
2005

Live Tracking

Current Position

Live AIS · 2 d ago
Track · last 4 d
Position
28.616°N · 94.681°W
Speed
0.0 kn
Course
102°
Status
At anchor

Where it waited most

Most time stopped at Offshore 28.61,-94.68 6 h across 3 stays.

  1. 1
    Offshore 28.61,-94.686 h · 3×

Derived from the AIS track — runs of near-zero speed (anchored, moored or drifting) snapped to the nearest port. Builds up as we observe the vessel.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Estimated market value
$46.5Mrange $41.1M$57.3M
$150/dwt · 310,309 dwt · built 2005
high confidence · 54 comps
Comparable sales
TAIGA 2007 · $45MHAISHEN 2005 · $38MROLIN 2005 · $30.5MDENNIE 2000 · $30MMONACO LOYALTY 2007 · $40MATLANTIC LOYALTY 2007 · $44M
Second opinion±27% typical error
$46.3Mrange $41.1M$62.1M

An independent cross-check of the estimate above for Tanker (segment · size · age · market).

Estimate from $/dwt of similar-size, similar-age ships sold in the last 24 months. Indicative, not a certified valuation.

Risk scoreCritical
25/ 100
Safety58
Compliance5
Environment58
Carbon intensity · estimatedA

This ship has no verified emissions report. We estimate a band A from its segment, size and age (83% confidence).

Estimate, not a reported figure. Within one band 95% of the time on reported peers.

Operational Status

Activity

Idle / at anchorFix 1 day ago

Stopped, anchored or moored on its latest broadcast — parked, not necessarily withdrawn.

Speed
0.0 kn
Nav status
At anchor
Last broadcast
1 day ago
Hull age
21 yr

Read from the single most-recent AIS broadcast we hold for this hull — we keep no position history, so this is a point-in-time posture, not a dwell inference. Derived in-house from our own AIS feed; weight it by the broadcast age above.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

82/100
High risk80% component coverage

Strong, corroborated adverse evidence — a detention, sanctions exposure or a dark-fleet signal.

PSC detentionsno data
Sanctions exposure100
Dark-fleet signal100
Hull age64
Flag register25

A coverage-weighted blend of the 4 components we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

Estimated

Capacity & Classification

Cargo capacity at draughtMedium confidence
~310,309t at summer draught

Tanker · summer draught 9.2 m · 188.7 t per cm immersion

Estimated intake by draught
6.44 m~258,225 t
6.9 m~266,906 t
7.36 m~275,586 t
7.82 m~284,267 t
8.28 m~292,948 t
8.74 m~301,628 t
9.2 m~310,309 t

Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (deadweight regression) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

Type classification
Declared
Tanker
Inferred from size
Tanker

density DWT/GT=1.94 is consistent with declared tanker

DWT/GT 1.94Beam/LOA 0.18Declared type: Crude Oil Tanker

Declared type is consistent with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.

Transparency

Risk signals

Behavioural flags raised against this vessel — each shown with the raw evidence behind it. Derived in-house from data we are entitled to publish; informational, not a determination of wrongdoing.

AIS gapcriticalstrength 1.00

Stopped transmitting relative to the live feed front

On Sanctions List
yes
Regimes
OFAC

Method: vessel is on a sanctions list but has never appeared on our live AIS feed. Source: ais_positions (absence) + sanctioned_vessels.

Signals are a current-state view: a flag clears once the vessel stops tripping its detector. These are screening indicators, not a substitute for your own due diligence.

Commercial

Voyage Estimate

From 310,309 DWT · ~70 t/day · bunker @ live VLSFO.

Overview

About This Vessel

As part of Operation Southern Spear, the United States enacted a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers traveling in and out of Venezuela on 17 December 2025, after placing additional sanctions affecting oil trade with the country. A week before announcing the blockade, the US seized the oil tanker Skipper in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela on 10 December, and then focused its military efforts on intercepting and pursuing other tankers trading with Venezuela. On 7 January 2026, the United States boarded and seized the Russian oil tanker Marinera (formerly Bella 1) in the Atlantic near Iceland and the Panama-flagged M Sophia in the Caribbean Sea. Skipper had been sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury in 2022 for alleged involvement in an oil trafficking shadow fleet of vessels involving the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah. Marinera and Sophia had also been sanctioned by the Treasury Department. The Venezuelan government condemned the seizure of Skipper, describing it as an "act of international piracy". UN Security Council members urged restraint and some UN representatives condemned the naval blockade, and analysts said US actions tested maritime law.

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