The environmental group has launched a beta version of its 'Russian Tanker Tracker' on Twitter - @RUTankerTracker - which uses shipping data to monitor supertankers delivering fossil fuels from the country.
The fully automated Twitter tracker has been created by Greenpeace and aims to track the large oil and ga tankers (deadweight tonnage equal to or over 50,000 tonnes) that have left a list of Russian oil and gas terminals since Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Using MarineTraffic API data services, the cloud-based solution pulls data about vessel position from transceivers on board (AIS), as well as port calls data for a variety of events including departures, destination, change of destination and arrivals. Twitter posts then are generated from the data using pre-defined templates and automatically posted to the Twitter account.
Data on shipments has been gathered starting from February 24 and the Twitter tracker started issuing alerts...