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Maritime Watch Monitor, 13 October 2026
The file firms use to check whether a counterparty is under EU sanctions is, the European Commission now says, “provided for information purposes only”. It carries no legal weight and does not replace the legal acts in the Official Journal, Saul Goulding, a Commission press officer, wrote in reply to
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Where do “shadow fleet” tankers come from?
One tanker, four names: how a ship that spent five years in the Western fleet became a sanctioned “shadow fleet” tanker. A short film built from Mariel data.
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Maritime Watch Monitor, 6 October 2026
Washington now has a ready-made shortlist for shadow-fleet sanctions, and Europe wrote most of it. A US law signed on 18 September lets the President treat an allied listing as prima facie evidence against a ship. The allies named are the UK, the EU, the G7 and the
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