The Trump administration imposed a new round of sanctions on oil brokers, ships and people it said were linked to illicit shipments of Iranian crude, framing the move as a return to a “maximum pressure” […]
The UK is imposing a new wave of sanctions against the Russian oil trade, targeting an additional 40 ships. The biggest sanctions package against Russia’s shadow fleet brings the total number of oil tankers sanctioned […]
Cargo ships could reportedly be impounded on grounds of supposed piracy and the threat of environmental incidents Several EU members are considering strengthening the legal framework for seizing ships in the Baltic Sea with […]
Denmark has taken its next step in cracking down on Russian-linked shadow tankers passing through its waters The Danish Maritime Authority will carry out port state controls on tankers it deems high risk who anchor […]
European and American shipowners have pocketed at least $6.3bn from selling hundreds of ageing tankers on to shell companies, from where they make their way into the shadow fleet, a new probe carried out by […]
Ship-to-ship transfers of Russian-linked oil have spiked dramatically this month in the wake of America’s largest sanctions package aimed at Russia’s shadow fleet. Data from maritime risk analytics firm Windward shows there has been a […]
Navibulgar The Bulgarian owner at the centre of a new cable cutting incident in the Baltic has denied its ship deliberately carried out the latest damage to subsea infrastructure in the region, something analysts are […]
San Marino, Guyana, Sierra Leone, Comoro Islands, Guinea Bissau and most notably Guinea are the flag states that stand out for their extraordinary fleet growth in the latest data compiled in Clarksons Research’s World Fleet […]
The UK is leading a bid to stamp out falsely flagged ships at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). In a submission to the IMO’s legal committee, backed by 21 other countries, the UK has counted […]
The number of vessels hit by sanctions has surpassed 1,000 with data from S&P Global Market Intelligence showing that more 800 of these ships do not have confirmed insurance. Moreover, the average age of sanctioned […]
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