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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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Transatlantic sanctions lists drift apart as Washington targets Iran, Europe Russia
The United States and the United Kingdom each blacklisted a batch of tankers on 8 October without naming a single ship in common, as Washington’s shadow fleet listings concentrate on Iran’s trade and Europe’s on Russia’s. The US Treasury listed 22 ships, all under its Iran
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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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Container lines' carbon relief up for rewrite as MEPs table changes
Container lines would get a bigger carbon discount the further they sail into or out of the EU, under changes to the bloc's emissions trading scheme proposed by the MEP drafting the European Parliament's transport committee opinion. Matteo Ricci, an Italian MEP who sits with the
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Methane slip trips up EU green-finance label for LNG-fuelled ships
The European Commission was wrong to let LNG-fuelled ships qualify as green investments without setting any limit on the methane their engines let slip, Europe's General Court ruled on 30 September. Under the EU's sustainable-finance rules, buying, financing, chartering or operating an LNG-fuelled
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