MyShipTracking's log pairs a 16 20 August:45 UTC arrival with the Monday departure. The same page still carries a live-position fix dated 10 12 August: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 would settle the story, and none is confirmed.
Around the pier the stop did not hold. Reuters reported on Monday, citing two industry sources, that Novorossiysk resumed crude loadings on Sunday and that the first two cargoes were Kazakhstan’s KEBCO grade, the grade Sheskharis loads. 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 would settle the story, 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.
Correction, 18 September 2026: as published, this brief said Sheskharis had entered a 5th day with no reported restart. Reuters had reported the restart of crude loadings at Novorossiysk on Monday 17 August, the day before this brief ran, and CAW carried it the same morning in a separate item. The paragraph has been corrected.