Sanctioned tanker Liteyny Prospect docks in China to offload Russian oil

Cangzhou port officials could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday. The manager of the tanker, Sovcomflot, could not immediately be reached for comment.

The sanctioned Russian oil tanker Liteyny Prospect has docked at the Chinese port of Huanghua, near the city of Cangzhou in Hebei province, to discharge its 700,000-barrel cargo of Russian Sokol crude, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The Liberian-flagged Liteyny Prospect docked on Wednesday at a berth at Huanghua, a northern port that handles mostly coal and iron ore shipments, shipping data from analytics firms LSEG, Kpler and Vortexa showed. Cangzhou port officials could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday. The manager of the tanker, Sovcomflot, could not immediately be reached for comment.