Three months after HNN uncovered an elaborate scheme to deliver a Chinese power plant from a construction yard near Shanghai to Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project, U.S. authorities included the company behind the activity, Zhoushan Wison Offshore and Marine, in the latest round of sanctions.
The illicit shipping operation lasted nearly two months and involved three heavy lift vessels carrying a massive power plant from the Zhoushan yard via the ice-covered Northern Sea Route to Russia’s Gydan peninsula.
The U.S. State Department details the shipping operation in its press release recounting the scheme in its broad strokes.
“After Zhoushan Wison allowed the modules to be shipped from and depart their facility, the modules were transshipped in intermediary ports in China and transferred between a series of vessels, including U.S.-blocked Hunter Star (IMO 9830769) and Nan Feng Zhi Xing (IMO 9934498), some of which took actions to conceal their identity and location,” a spokesperson for the State Department recounts.
