{"id":1127,"date":"2026-01-19T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:38:38","slug":"germany-maritime-authorities-turn-away-shadow-fleet-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/01\/19\/germany-maritime-authorities-turn-away-shadow-fleet-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany &#8211; maritime authorities turn away shadow fleet vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/investigativ\/ndr-wdr\/schattenflotte-vorgehen-100.html\">the German authorities ordered<\/a> the vessel <em>Tavian<\/em> not to enter German territorial waters after inspection of the ship&#8217;s papers resulted in a finding that the vessel was sailing under a false flag and with a fake IMO number, and a suspicion that the tanker was being used to ship Russian oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vessel complied with the order and turned around before returning to the North Sea and turning off its transponder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kn-online.de\/schleswig-holstein\/deutschland-zwingt-zombietanker-auf-der-ostsee-vor-fehmarn-zur-umkehr-LV5ZAVSTWZFLXH7ER3C5K3TYFI.html\">Other reports include<\/a> a comment from the Bundespolizei that they could not comment on an &#8220;ongoing operational procedure&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the German authorities ordered the vessel Tavian not to enter German territorial waters after inspection of the ship&#8217;s papers resulted in a finding that the vessel was sailing under a false flag and with a fake IMO number, and a suspicion that the tanker was being used to ship Russian oil. The vessel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/01\/19\/germany-maritime-authorities-turn-away-shadow-fleet-vessel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany &#8211; maritime authorities turn away shadow fleet vessel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,70],"tags":[25,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-germany","tag-russia","tag-trade-sanctions"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Handley","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/markhandley.html\">Read Mark's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}