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Maritime Watch Monitor, 29 September 2026
Four tankers the EU cited when it sanctioned their Turkish operator on 15 June are still trading and have been re-certified and re-insured by Western firms since the listing. The EU Council froze the assets of Trans KA Tankers Management as operator of the Haci Kemal Ka, the
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Shadow fleet: the ships the EU didn't list
The European Union sanctioned a Turkish tanker operator on 15 June for running three ships it said lacked insurance and hid their movements while carrying Russian oil, but listed none of the ships. Within nine days four tankers the company ran, the three named and one more, had been transferred
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Maritime Watch Monitor, 22 September 2026
Iran's largest sanctions-evasion network took its tankers through 21 European port inspections between 2022 and 2025, and on the day of each call neither the ship nor its recorded manager was on any list. An analysis of Paris MoU and registry records in Maritime Watch's
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Shadow fleet's Dubai carousel kept Iranian network ahead of sanctions lists
Iran's largest sanctions-evasion network passed its tankers through 21 European port inspections between 2022 and 2025. On the day of each call, neither the ship nor its recorded manager was on any sanctions list. Each time a management company was sanctioned, the fleet had already moved to
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Maritime Watch Monitor, 15 September 2026
Ships are paying their carbon bills: companies surrendered allowances covering more than 99% of their obligations by the September 2025 deadline. What three years of the regime have not yet demonstrated is what happens to anyone who should not be trusted. Asked whether the monitoring system's data was