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The tanker leaves in the log, and nowhere else

The port-call record for Aegean Dream now shows a departure from Novorossiysk at 07:02 UTC Monday after a 10-hour call. The ship's transponder, dark since 10 August, confirms none of it.

The tanker leaves in the log, and nowhere else

MyShipTracking's log pairs a 16 August 20:45 UTC arrival with the Monday departure. The same page still carries a live-position fix dated 10 August 12:16 UTC, a frozen 13 August arrival estimate and a second, open-ended arrival entry for 12 August. A log that disagrees with itself is a schedule feed. A loaded departure remains the only fact that closes this file, and none is confirmed.

Around the pier the stop holds. Sheskharis, the terminal that loads Kazakhstan’s KEBCO grade, entered a 5th day with no reported restart, and every restart headline the sweep raised dated to April, May or July. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s newest own-name statement remains 30 July, a silence of 19 days. A record charter print of $440,948 a day, set on 12 August, has no newer successor in the accounts read.

A loaded departure remains the only fact that closes this file, and none is confirmed.

The night's attack pointed elsewhere. Moscow's mayor counted 180 drones downed over the capital region out of what he said were 620 sent, and the overnight danger lists named Crimea, Sevastopol and 11 central and Volga regions. Krasnodar, Astrakhan and Tatarstan, the three regions that carry the export corridor's geography, were absent from the lists read. Off Turkey's coast, Samsun's anchorage count of 70 ships against a normal 20 to 25 stands from Sunday's print.