I would like to suggest Ms- Rosett to read Triple (author: Ken Follet) before making any report related to “political shipping industry”. As an expert in commercial shipping industry, I found Ms. Rosset report as a basic non professional report more likely to a basket ball reporter who is trying to report a boxing match.
She has not noted to this important that there are numerous ways for employment of a commercial ship through which the original ownerships could not be traced. Moreover, a banned (U.S. or internationally) ship should not be insured by the maritime international under-writers since they are provided with the updated ownership lists on daily basis.
But the biggest difference in employment of a ship is when the owner is supposed to use it as a “private carrier” or “public Carrier”.
Ms. Rosett should have consulted with a shipping expert, in my opinion, before writing this report particularly when 99% of her readers do not have professional shipping knowledge.