According to the publication, the transport department revealed 40 violations, 29 of which experts appreciated as significant. Most of them (23) relate to documentation, others – security in the sea, preparation of the crew for emergency situations and technical points.
According to the director of the marine service of the Estonian Transport Department, Kristan Truu, the country began checking the tanker “within the limits of its rights and international obligations.” He moved without a flag, because he did not fall under the legislation of a single country. Estonia is not interested in detaining it for a long time.
While the tanker is anchored in Muuga Bay and is under the protection of Estonian naval forces. If both documents and technical deficiencies are corrected, the transport council will provide the court with permission to continue movement after re -verification, ERR notes.
Context
In early December 2022, the countries – members of the “Big Seven”, as well as Australia and the EU introduced the limitation of prices for Russian oil, setting the maximum level of $ 60 per barrel. Since February 5, 2023, these countries introduced a price ceiling on Russian oil products: $ 100 – for diesel combustible and $ 45 for various lubricants.
After the first sanctions, as Reuters noted, Russian oil industry workers had difficulties with the search for tankers for transportation. But Russia, as the Western media wrote, was looking for ways to circumvent sanctions. In particular, she translated her oil tankers registered in Liberia and Marshall Islands, under the flag of Gabon (before that, the USA, the EU and the UK The island of liability for violation of the sanctions regime warned Liberia and the Marshalls of the island)and also secretly overloaded oil from suction tankers to other vessels.
As of December 12, 2024, Ukrainian intelligence identified 238 ships of the “shadow fleet” of the Russian Federation, which the invaders use to circumvent price restrictions. The EU imposed sanctions against 79 courts (the last restrictions were introduced on December 16), transporting Russian oil. UK, as of October 16, imposed sanctions against 43 such tankers.
January 10, 2025, the United States announced large -scale sanctions against the Russian energy sector, in particular Against 184 tankers of the “shadow fleet” of the aggressor country, as well as against the two largest Russian oil companies – Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz. On the same day These two companies were brought into their sanctions lists by the UK.
On February 5, sanctions against the captains of the “shadow fleet” of the Russian Federation were introduced for 10 years Ukraine.
