North Korea has long been known to reflag and shuffle ownership and management of its vessels as part of efforts to evade international sanctions, and a new report published Thursday offers new evidence as to how these actions are being facilitated.

The report, published by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) as part of its Project Sandstone series, spotlights three Dalian-based Chinese individuals and their positions as powerful maritime surveyors with connections to North Korea.

It follows another reportreleased in February exposing links between other individuals such as Li Anshan to Chinese state-owned companies and revealing the scope of