Western insurers say Russian oil price cap doesn’t work
A group of Western insurers has said a Russian oil price cap has become unenforceable and only pushed more ships into joining a shadow fleet, delivering one of the harshest rebukes to the measure that had been meant to cut revenue to the Kremlin. The G7 group of industrialised nations approved a price cap for Russian oil after Washington lobbied to curb the Kremlin’s revenue amid the war in Ukraine while keeping Russian oil flowing to avoid a an energy price spike. The cap allows Western shippers and insurers to ...
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