Product tanker flows to Venezuela have nearly stopped after the US, its main supplier of clean petrol­eum products, imposed sweeping sanctions on the country's oil ­sector at the end of January.

According to ClipperData, the only shipment recorded for February so far is from the St Eustatius terminal in the eastern Carib­bean, where state-owned oil and natural gas company Petrol­eos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) stores oil, from which 322,000 barrels of ­ethanol have been transported to Venezuela.