Azia Shipping Company
About the company
Azia Shipping Company
Azia Shipping Company is a Russian shipping company. It owns the cargo vessel Captain Yakobovich. On 24th January 2022, it docked at MITT port in Yangon, delivering armoured vehicles and other military equipment destined for the Burmese military.
Contacts:
Azia Shipping
Head Office
29, Pos’etskaya str.
Vladivostok 690091
Russia
Email: azia@aziaship.com
Sources:
Khit Thit Media report 25th January 2022
https://www.facebook.com/khitthitnews/photos/pcb.1409195189517823/1409194906184518
Arms being sent to Myanmar from Russia, Myanmar Witness.
https://www.myanmarwitness.org/reports/arms-being-sent-to-myanmar-from-russia
Azia Shipping website accessed January 2022
http://www.azsco.ru/fleet.html
Notified 27th January 2022
Added to the Dirty List 1 March 2022
The Dirty List
The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:
“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”
A PDF of the full Dirty List is available here.