When Compliance Fails Upstream: Lessons from Maritime Supplier Crackdowns
Sanctions enforcement in the maritime domain is no longer confined to rogue vessels and bad-faith operators. It now reaches into the supply chain itself, where spare parts, ship components, and fuel contracts are increasingly treated as evidence. For maritime equipment manufacturers and service providers, the assumption of being one step removed from regulatory exposure is…
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Expanded UK Sanctions Heighten Maritime Risk and Compliance Pressure
On Monday, June 21st, the UK added another 135 tankers to its Russia sanctions list, bringing the total number of banned ships over the past 13 months to approximately 424. Of the newly sanctioned vessels: Russian exposure is no longer easily identifiable, as sanctions increasingly target entities beyond the vessels themselves. The UK has now…
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Unprecedented Maritime Compliance Challenges Emerge from EU’s 18th Sanctions Package
The European Union’s 18th sanctions package on Russia recalibrates global oil trades once again and intensifies shipping risk and compliance complexity across the maritime domain. Western sanctions have already bifurcated global trade. Now, enforcement is similarly diverging: while the EU introduces a dynamic price cap mechanism, alongside the UK; the United States continues to uphold…
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EU-Sanctioned Tanker Uses Fraudulent Malawi Flag to Transit Suez Canal
A high-risk tanker that was transmitting the fraudulent flag registry of Malawi transited the Suez Canal on July 18, in breach of the Suez Canal Authority’s rules of navigation. Malawi is designated as a fraudulent registry by the International Maritime Organization, which lists the EU- and UK-sanctioned tanker Night Glory (IMO 9319674) as falsely flagged….
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