April 17th, 2026 - 10:10 GMT
The Marquise is a 184-metre product tanker built two decades ago. It is not a glamorous vessel. It is old, it is slow by modern standards, and it has spent the past several years doing something unremarkable on paper: picking up cargoes of petroleum products at Russian export terminals and delivering them to ports scattered across Turkey and West Africa. What makes the Marquise interesting is not what it carries ...
