For anyone not familiar, the Liberian flag is typically used as a flag of convenience to avoid regulations to which otherwise they’d be obliged to conform to. So the vessel probably isn’t Liberian other than on paper.
My understanding is that it can sometimes be pretty difficult to track down actual owners of ships, since shell companies and the like can be involved. Not sure whether that is true for the ship here.
Cyprus Maritime buys Blenheim fleet
Mon Mar 02 10:40:28 CET 2015 arnekiel
Hadjiyiannis-led Cyprus Maritime is understood to have paid around $75m for the six ships, which account for all of Blenheim’s surviving fleet, TradeWinds reports.
The UK owner’s exit from shipowning, at least for now, comes only seven months after it sold its aframax fleet to Idan Ofer’s Eastern Pacific for $210m.
The ships heading for Cyprus Maritime are the 93,000-dwt Ocean Breeze (built 2009), the 91,000-dwt trio Sea Breeze (built 2009), Moon Breeze (built 2011) and Star Breeze (built 2010) and the 2004 built, 76,300-dwt pair Atlantic Breeze and Pacific Breeze. http://www.tradewindsnews.com/finance/355179/cyprus-maritime-buys-blenheim-fleet
“Ocean Breeze” was the previous name of the Kmax Ruler, the ship in question.
So unless it sold subsequent to 2015, the ship is probably owned by an EU-based company.
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This page lists the operator as being “VENUS MARE SA”, as does this.
For anyone not familiar, the Liberian flag is typically used as a flag of convenience to avoid regulations to which otherwise they’d be obliged to conform to. So the vessel probably isn’t Liberian other than on paper.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russian-missile-hits-vessel-black-sea-kills-one-2023-11-08/
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:194041/mmsi:636022294/imo:9436642/vessel:KMAX_RULER
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9436642
https://www.fleetmon.com/vessels/kmax-ruler_9436642_37351/
https://www.balticshipping.com/vessel/imo/9436642
BalticShipping seems to have ownership information freely available, albeit with a warning that it may not be current.
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Yeah, that company dissolved two years ago:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04548270
My understanding is that it can sometimes be pretty difficult to track down actual owners of ships, since shell companies and the like can be involved. Not sure whether that is true for the ship here.
https://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Kmax-Ruler-9436642.html?show=movement_history
“Ocean Breeze” was the previous name of the Kmax Ruler, the ship in question.
So unless it sold subsequent to 2015, the ship is probably owned by an EU-based company.
looks further
This page lists the operator as being “VENUS MARE SA”, as does this.