Hours after the US announced its seizure of the large oil tanker believed to be named ‘SKIPPER’, vesselfinder.com placed the vessel just between Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada, its position last night reported shortly before 8.p.m. by Automatic Identification System (AIS).

By this morning the vessel appeared to move east of St Vincent, headed north. 

Though the US has not officially confirmed the name of the vessel it seized on Wednesday morning purportedly near the coast of Venezuela, international media has reported that it was identified by US officials as the ‘Skipper’, and that it had been falsely flying a Guyanese flag while allegedly transporting sanctioned oil.