On March 1 the Kimolos, an oil tanker flying the Marshall Islands flag and operated by a Greek transport firm, disappeared from radars whereas crusing south-southwest about 60 nautical miles off the Lebanese coast. Two days earlier, it had docked on the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, Turkey. There, it had loaded roughly a million barrels of Azerbaijani crude oil on the BTC pipeline terminal, which transports oil from the Caspian Sea. For almost 4 days, the tanker — which had declared that it was heading to Port Stated, Egypt — stopped transmitting its place to the Automated Identification System (AIS), as it’s required to do by maritime security rules. After these 4 days, based on the International Fishing Watch monitoring platform, it reappeared about 40 miles south of the spot the place it had disappeared, solely this time it was crusing north, again in the direction of the port of Ceyhan. What occurred throughout these days it had turn into a phantom ship?
