Search OpenSanctions

Joffa

Joffa is an entity of interest. It has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Vessel				[sources]
Name	Joffa				[sources]
Other name	Zoffa				[sources]
Description	According to Footnote 99 (p. 232) of the UN Panel of Experts September 2022 report, this vessel was renamed to "Zoffa" in March 2022, shortly before it was broken up in April. Panel investigations showed that "Joffa", before being scrapped, operated as an intermediary vessel that loaded oil cargo from motherships – "Sky Venus" (IMO: 9168257), "Xiang Shun" (IMO: 9153800) and "Hong Hu" (IMO: 9125293) – in a chain of ship-to-ship transfers. "Joffa" then proceeded to meet with “direct delivery” tankers "New Konk" (IMO: 9036387. sailing as "Lifan") and/or with "Unica" (IMO: 8514306. sailing as Haishun 2) in 2021 and 2022. "Prior to these transfers, Joffa visited shipyards along the Baima River, which included Fujian Yihe Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd. (福建省易和船舶重工有限责任公司), a shipyard that has been investigated in association with servicing tankers that conducted sanctionable activities. After remaining on the Baima River between April and December 2021, Joffa met Sky Venus on about 3 December 2021. As a shared intermediary vessel, Joffa was used to transfer illicit oil cargo from different motherships to known “direct delivery” vessels New Konk and Unica. This strongly suggests coordination among these transfers."				[sources]
Flag	Sierra Leone				[sources]
IMO Number	`IMO8513405`				[sources]
Type	Broken up				[sources]
Last change	2024-12-09	Last processed	2024-12-16	First seen	2023-08-08

Linked from
Subject	Role	Start date	End date
Joffa Trade International Co. Ltd.	Owner and Manager	-	-
Nuwanni International Ship Management Co. Ltd.	Technical manager	-	2019

A database of entities and events related to North Korea's sanctions evasion efforts.

United Kingdom · RUSI · non-official source

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.