2026-02-09 / 美联社
这张于2026年2月9日（周一）发布的照片显示，五角大楼称美国军方在印度洋登检了一艘受制裁的油轮。
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五角大楼周一表示，美军在追踪一艘油轮从加勒比海驶向印度洋后，在印度洋登检了一艘受制裁的油轮。
五角大楼在社交媒体上的声明中未说明该船是否与委内瑞拉有关联。委内瑞拉面临美国对其石油实施的制裁，且该国一直依赖一支挂假旗的影子船队，将原油走私到全球供应链中。
TankerTrackers.com联合创始人萨米尔·马丹尼表示，“天鹰二号”（Aquila II）是上月美国军方抓捕时任总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗后，从委内瑞拉海岸出发的至少16艘油轮之一。他称其组织通过卫星图像和地面照片记录了该船的航行轨迹。
根据周一从该船传输的数据显示，目前船上并未装载原油。
“天鹰二号”是一艘悬挂巴拿马国旗的油轮，因涉嫌运输非法俄罗斯石油受到美国制裁。其船东公司的注册地址在香港，船舶追踪数据显示，该船在过去一年中的大部分时间里关闭了无线电应答器，这种做法被称为“暗航”，是走私者常用的隐藏位置的手段。
负责拉美地区事务的美国南方司令部在电子邮件中表示，除五角大楼在X平台（原推特）发布的帖子外，没有更多补充信息。该帖子称军方对该船进行了“登临检查和海上拦截”。
五角大楼称：“‘天鹰二号’违反了特朗普总统在加勒比海对受制裁船只设立的隔离令，它试图逃跑，我们进行了追踪。”
美国并未说明是否扣押了该船，此前美国已至少扣押了另外七艘与委内瑞拉有关联的受制裁油轮。
自1月3日特朗普政府在夜间突袭中意外推翻马杜罗政权以来，美国政府已着手控制委内瑞拉石油产品的生产、炼制和全球分销。特朗普总统领导的共和党政府官员明确表示，扣押这些油轮是为了筹集资金，同时试图重建委内瑞拉遭受重创的石油工业并恢复其经济。
US military boards sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after pursuit from the Caribbean
2026-02-09 / Associated Press
This photo released on Monday, February 9, 2026, shows a sanctioned oil tanker the Pentagon says was boarded by US military forces in the Indian Ocean.
Department of Defense
US military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Monday.
The Pentagon’s statement on social media did not say whether the ship was connected to Venezuela, which faces US sanctions on its oil and has relied on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains.
However, the Aquila II was one of at least 16 tankers that departed the Venezuelan coast last month after US forces captured then-President Nicolás Maduro, said Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com. He said his organization used satellite imagery and surface-level photos to document the ship’s movements.
According to data transmitted from the ship on Monday, it is not currently laden with a cargo of crude oil.
The Aquila II is a Panamanian-flagged tanker under US sanctions related to the shipment of illicit Russian oil. Owned by a company with a listed address in Hong Kong, ship tracking data shows it has spent much of the last year with its radio transponder turned off, a practice known as “running dark” commonly employed by smugglers to hide their location.
US Southern Command, which oversees Latin America, said in an email that it had nothing to add to the Pentagon’s post on X. The post said the military “conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction” on the ship.
“The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean,” the Pentagon said. “It ran, and we followed.”
The US did not say it had seized the ship, which the US has done previously with at least seven other sanctioned oil tankers linked to Venezuela.
Since the US ouster of Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid on Jan. 3, the Trump administration has set out to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela’s oil products. Officials in President Donald Trump’s Republican administration have made it clear they see seizing the tankers as a way to generate cash as they seek to rebuild Venezuela’s battered oil industry and restore its economy.
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