Gasoline from Morocco and India has arrived in northern Russia. About 30,000 tonnes of AI-92 from Tangier were reported discharging at Murmansk in late July. A first cargo from India arrived on 5 August.

Russian press says those volumes are still sitting there, hung on a fight between import cost and the regulated domestic price. That “stuck” claim is a single source. It is not official.

This is a cargo story, not a strike. It is not part of the Azov campaign, and it is not the Damietta fire.

What happened

Reuters, on 31 July, reported an unnamed Panama-flag tanker discharging about 30,000 tonnes of AI-92 at Murmansk after a voyage from Tangier. Lukoil was cited as the supplier. The St Petersburg exchange noted rail from the Kola Peninsula.

A separate Indian cargo arrived in Russia on 5 August, according to Bloomberg and Kpler. Nayara, in which Rosneft holds a stake, was named on that stem. There is Egypt STS colour on the routing. That transfer is not the Damietta FSRU fire.

There is evidence that the imported gasoline is at Murmansk and has not yet entered the domestic market.

What happened next

On 14 August, Dialog.UA, citing Russian media, said the cargo was hung in Murmansk on a price fight and that trades from Murmansk oblast had not started. How much is still in tanks, or on the hook, is unconfirmed.

The ships

The Morocco cargo is an unnamed Panama-flag tanker. There is no AIS on that hull. The orange tanker in a widely shared photograph is not identified.

The India stem, as Fleet has it, moved from Cyclone / Agni to Garnet by STS. Garnet’s last AIS was in northern Russia, destination Vitino, six days stale. That is not the ship in the photograph, and it is not an Azov hull.