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The tanker 'Thousand Sunny' will arrive near Venezuela in mid-January 2026, on its present course. The 'Thousand Sunny 'has not diverted or slowed down since his declaration and rounded the Cape of Good Hope in ballast on Dec 24 towards the southern Atlantic en route to Venezuela, sailing at a speed of 12.4 knots. A The ship has been transporting Venezuelan Merey crude to China for a half-decade. It is Chinese-flagged, of unknown ownership, and it is not sanctioned by the US. She was sold by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in 2020 as part of a series of transactions to facilitate Venezuela-China crude flows. The tanker has been making back-and-forth runs between the Jose Terminal and Ningbo ever since Another Chinese-flagged VLCC, the 'Xing Ye', was waiting to load in Venezuela and was slowly steaming off French Guiana. The tanker, also unsanctioned and formerly owned by the CNPC, has already arrived off South America, being scheduled to load in Venezuela in January, 2026. The ship has last loaded crude in Venezuela in August and has made its return ballast tripLike the 'Thousand Sunny' it has operated solely in the Venezuela-China trade since its sale by the CNPC to an unknown buyer in 2020. S

A crew member with appendicitis was requiring urgent hospitalization and had to be medevaced from the "Boyaca" in Indonesian waters near Sabang in the morning of Jan 26, 2017. The patien was transported to Banda Aceh. The tanker continued the voyage from Venezuela to Rizhao.