Date: June 20, 2025 | Author: MarePress Maritime News Desk
On June 17, 2025, a collision between two oil supertankers near the Strait of Hormuz reignited concerns over maritime safety, environmental risks, and the shadowy operations of under-regulated vessels. The incident involved the ADALYNN, reportedly part of a Russian โshadow fleet,โ and the Front Eagle, a commercial vessel operated by Norwegian shipping company Frontline.

๐ฅ The Incident: Collision, Fire, and Emergency Response
The crash occurred in the Gulf of Oman, just east of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuzโa chokepoint through which about one-fifth of the worldโs oil flows daily. Following the collision, a fire broke out onboard, prompting the Emirati Coast Guard and National Guard to evacuate all 24 crew members safely from the ADALYNN. The Front Eagle was also damaged, but no injuries were reported.
While the exact cause of the collision remains unknown, British security firm Ambrey confirmed that it was unrelated to the recent Israeli-Iranian hostilities that have heightened tensions in the region. However, the timing and location of the incident have amplified anxieties among maritime operators, insurers, and environmental watchdogs.
๐ Environmental Fallout: Oil Spill and Shadow Fleet Concerns
Satellite imagery analyzed by Greenpeace revealed a spreading oil slick covering approximately 1,500 hectares (roughly 3,700 acres). The ADALYNN, a 23-year-old vessel, was carrying an estimated 70,000 tons of crude oil at the time of the accident. Greenpeace denounced the vessel as part of a loosely regulated โshadow fleetโ that operates outside normal safety standards to bypass sanctions and environmental regulations.
Greenpeace spokesperson Lena Gutiรฉrrez warned:
โThis incident could become an ecological disaster. These vessels often lack proper maintenance and pose a significant risk not only to marine life but also to global climate resilience.โ
โฝ Economic & Geopolitical Implications
The Strait of Hormuz has long been a geopolitical flashpoint, and this latest incident highlights its fragility. Global oil prices have shown volatility in the aftermath of the collision, as operators assess risk and reroute tankers to avoid the area. The timing is criticalโjust days after Israeli airstrikes on Iranian infrastructure on June 13, which already strained regional shipping routes and insurance markets.
Frontline, the operator of the Front Eagle, announced a temporary suspension of new shipping contracts in the Gulf of Oman. Maritime analysts predict further tightening of insurance coverage and possible reclassification of the area as a โwar risk zone.โ
โ ๏ธ Maritime Safety Under the Spotlight
The collision also raises questions about the continued operation of aging tankers. The ADALYNN, like many shadow fleet ships, sails under flags of convenience and often lacks compliance with international safety and environmental standards. These vessels are used to circumvent oil embargoes, especially by sanctioned states like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.
International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulators and regional navies are now being urged to increase inspections, enforce stricter port state controls, and develop shared databases on high-risk ships.
๐ Conclusion: A Wake-Up Call for Global Shipping
While no lives were lost, the incident has magnified the intersecting risks of outdated shipping infrastructure, environmental degradation, and regional conflict. It is a stark reminder of the global dependency on safe and secure maritime routesโand the urgency of enforcing transparency and safety in shipping operations.
As climate change intensifies and geopolitical rivalries grow, the world cannot afford to ignore the hidden dangers of shadow fleets. The Strait of Hormuz may be narrow, but the ripple effects of an oil spill can stretch across continents.
๐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ ์ ์ถ: ํธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆ ํดํ ์ธ๊ทผ ์ด๋ํ ์ ์กฐ์ ์ถฉ๋ ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ฌ์จ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ฐ๋ ค
์์ฑ์ผ: 2025๋ 6์ 20์ผ | ์์ฑ์: ๋ง๋ ํ๋ ์ค ํด์์๋ณดํ
2025๋ 6์ 17์ผ, ์ธ๊ณ ํด์๋ฌผ๋ฅ์ ํต์ฌ ์์ถฉ์ง์ธ ํธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆ ํดํ ์ธ๊ทผ์์ ๋ ์ฒ์ ์ด๋ํ ์ ์กฐ์ ์ด ์ถฉ๋ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ํ ํ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ ์ถ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค. ์ด ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋จ์ํ ํด์ ์ถฉ๋์ ๋์ด ํ๊ฒฝ์ค์ผ, ํด์์์ , ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์๋์ง ์๋ณด์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๋ก ๋ฐ์๋ค์ฌ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค.
๐ข ์ฌ๊ฑด ๊ฐ์: ์ถฉ๋, ํ์ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ธด๊ธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ
์ด๋ฒ ์ถฉ๋์ ๊ฑธํ ํด์ญ์ ์ค๋ง๋ง, ํธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆ ํดํ ๋์ชฝ์์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค. ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋
ธ๋ฅด์จ์ด ์ ์ฌ Frontline์ด ์ด์ํ๋ Front Eagle๊ณผ, ๋ฌ์์ ‘๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ ๋(Shadow Fleet)’๋ก ์ถ์ ๋๋ ADALYNN์ด๋ค.
์ถฉ๋ ์งํ ADALYNN์์ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ํ์ ์๋์๋ฏธ๋ฆฌํธ ์ฐ์๊ฒฝ๋น๋์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์๊ตฐ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ ํฌ์
๋์ด, ์ ๋ฐ์ ํ์นํด ์๋ 24๋ช
์ ์ ์์ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ๊ตฌ์กฐํ๋ค.
์๊ตญ์ ํด์ ๋ณด์ ๊ธฐ์ Ambrey๋ ํด๋น ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ต๊ทผ ์ด์ค๋ผ์-์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฌด๋ ฅ ์ถฉ๋๊ณผ๋ ๋ฌด๊ดํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐํํ์ผ๋, ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐ์ ์์ ๊ณผ ์ง์ญ์ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ๊ตญ์ ์ฌํ์ ์ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ ์ปค์ง๊ณ ์๋ค.
๐ข๏ธ ํ๊ฒฝ์ํฅ: ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ ์ ์ถ
์์ฑ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ถ์ํ Greenpeace๋ ์ฝ 1,500ํฅํ๋ฅด(์ฝ 3,700์์ด์ปค)์ ๋ฌํ๋ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์ ๋ง์ ํ์ธํ๋ค.
์ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผํจ ADALYNN์ 23๋
๋ ๋
ธํ ์ ์กฐ์ ์ผ๋ก, ์ฝ 7๋ง ํค์ ์์ ๋ฅผ ์ฃ๊ณ ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ตญ์ ์์ ๊ท์ ๋ฅผ ํํผํ๊ณ ์ ์ 3๊ตญ์ ํธ์์น์ (Flag of Convenience) ํ์ ์ดํญ๋๋ ‘๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ ๋’ ์์์ผ๋ก ์๋ ค์ ธ ์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฐํผ์ค ๊ด๊ณ์๋ ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ๋ค.
โํด๋น ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ตญ์ ์์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ ์ฑ๋ก ์ดํญ๋๊ณ ์์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋จ์ํ ์ ์ถ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ๋์ด ์ฌ๊ฐํ ์ํ๊ณ ํ๊ดด๋ก ์ด์ด์ง ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.โ
๐ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์๋์ง ์์ฅ์ ๋ฐ์
ํธ๋ฅด๋ฌด์ฆ ํดํ์ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ์์ ์์ถ์ ์ฝ 20%๊ฐ ํต๊ณผํ๋ ํด์ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ์ ํต์ฌ ๋ฃจํธ์ด๋ค.
6์ 13์ผ ์ด์ค๋ผ์์ ์ด๋ ๊ณต์ต ์ดํ ๊ธด์ฅ ์ํ๊ฐ ๊ณ ์กฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ํด์๋ณดํ๋ฃ ๊ธ๋ฑ, ์ ๋ฐ ์ฐํ ๊ฒฝ๋ก ์ค์ , ์ผ์์ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ธ๋ฑ ๋ฑ ๋ณตํฉ์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ผ์ผ์ผฐ๋ค.
Frontline์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ดํ ๊ฑธํ ํด์ญ์์์ ์ ๊ท ๊ณ์ฝ์ ์ผ์ ์ค๋จํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐํ๋ค.
โ ๏ธ ํด์์์ ๊ท์ ๊ฐํ ํ์์ฑ
์ด๋ฒ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๊ตญ์ ์ฌํ์ ๋
ธํ ์ ๋ฐ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ ๋์ ์ํ์ฑ์ ๋ค์ ํ ๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ธ์์ผฐ๋ค.
๊ตญ์ ํด์ฌ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ(IMO)์ ๊ฐ๊ตญ ํด์ฌ๋น๊ตญ์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์กฐ์ฌ๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ,
- ๋ ธํ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ํ ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐํ,
- ์ ํญ ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ(Port State Control) ํ๋,
- ์ ์ฌ ํํผ ์์ฌ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ํ ์ค์๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๊ณต์ ๋ฑ์ ์กฐ์น๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํด์ผ ํ ํ์์ฑ์ ์ ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
๐งญ ๊ฒฐ๋ก : ํด์๋ฌผ๋ฅ์ ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ์๊ธฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ ๋
์ด๋ฒ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋จ์ํ ํด์์ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ ๋์ ์กด์ฌ, ๊ท์ ์ฌ๊ฐ์ง๋, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ธด์ฅ๋ ์ง์ ํ์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ด ์ค์ฒฉ๋๋ฉฐ โํด์์ ๋ธ๋๋ฐ์คโ๊ฐ ํ์คํ๋ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ด๋ค.
์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ํด์์๋ณด ํ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ํด, ๋
ธํ ์ ๋ฐ์ ํด์ถ๊ณผ ๊ตญ์ ๊ณต์กฐ ์์คํ
์ ๊ฐํ๋ฅผ ํตํ ํฌ๋ช
ํ ํด์ด์ฒด๊ณ ๊ตฌ์ถ์ด ์ ์คํ๋ค.

Leave a comment