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Hai Zhou 168

Hai Zhou 168 is an entity of interest. It has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Vessel				[sources]
Name	Hai Zhou 168 · Smooth Sea 22				[sources]
Other name	Cheng Xin 1 · Hang Xin 8 · Smooth Sea 22 · Smooth Sea 28				[sources]
Description	The identifiers of this vessel were fraudulently used by the "Hai Zhou 168" (IMO: 8514045) in January 2019. Both vessels are owned by the same company. The "Smooth Sea 22" is allegedly a newly-built ship but suspected to be reconstructed from the "Smooth Sea28"/"Hai Zhou 168" (IMO: 8514045). · The identifiers of this vessel were fraudulently used by the "Subblic" (IMO: 8126082) in 2020 and 2021 to facilitate illicit refined petroleum transfers to the DPRK. The original AIS profile was vacant for the "Subblic" to use while the Hai Zhou 168 passed itself off as yet another vessel, the "Cheng Xin 1" (aka Smooth Sea; IMO: 9870991). Changed its identifiers to the "Hang Xin 8" (IMO: 8514045) in 2019 and later again to update itself as the "newly built" vessel "Cheng Xin 1".				[sources]
Flag	Belize · Sierra Leone · Thailand				[sources]
IMO Number	`IMO8514045` · `IMO9870991`				[sources]
MMSI	`312422000` · `312429000`				[sources]
Type	not available				[sources]
Source link	www.nknews.org · www.nknews.org				[sources]
Last change	2024-12-09	Last processed	2024-12-16	First seen	2023-08-08

Linked from
Subject	Role	Start date	End date
Smooth Sea Co. Ltd.	Former owner and manager as Smooth Sea 28	-	-
Cheng Xin Shipping Co. Ltd.	Owner and manager	2019-01	2019-03
Cheng Xin Shipping Co. Ltd.	Owner and manager	-	2019-03
Smooth Sea Co. Ltd.	Owner and manager	-	-

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