Why some ships vanish before unloading in the Middle East
Sanctions-busters prefer privacy
ON A RADAR map, the northern mouth of the Suez canal resembles a Bermuda Triangle-sur-Mer: ships have a habit of disappearing. So it was with the Emerald, an oil tanker which went through the canal on February 1st and vanished. Two days later it reappeared off the coast of Syria. What happened in the interim is now the focus of an international investigation.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Ghost ships and dollar scrip”
Middle East & Africa March 13th 2021
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