The company behind the VLCC that collided with a Hafnia tanker on Friday has been raising suspicions for roughly five years.
The listed address for Shanghai Prosperity Ship Management — manager of the 300,000-dwt Ceres I (built 2001) — housed an online mobile phone reseller when TradeWinds went looking for the company in 2019 after it and other low-profile companies were connected to a raft of vessel purchases.