According to a Reuters investigation, Venezuela's secret weapon might be a "dark fleet" of oil tankers. The country's national oil company, PDVSA, had reportedly leased 41 tankers in 2022.
Dark fleet is a term used to describe the assortment of tanker vessels which conceal their locations so as to enable the transportation of illicit cargoes of crude oil and derivative products. This is done using a variety of deceptive techniques to prevent the tanker from being identified or tracked. T...