{"id":1304,"date":"2026-07-30T08:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:38:27","slug":"eu-sanctioned-oil-tanker-boarded-in-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/07\/30\/eu-sanctioned-oil-tanker-boarded-in-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"EU &#8211; sanctioned oil tanker boarded in Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is <a href=\"https:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/article\/eu-inspects-sanctioned-tanker-as-it-increases-pressure-on-shadow-fleet\">being reported<\/a> that on 20 July, the EU&#8217;s Mediterranean naval taskforce IRINI boarded the Turkish-owned oil tanker, the <em>South Star<\/em>, in order to assess and investigate its flag status. Under a different name the vessel had been designated by both the EU and the UK in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report states that there was uncertainty over the vessel&#8217;s flag status as between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vessel was allowed to proceed after the boarding and inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same reporting refers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.operationirini.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Summary-01-July-2026-new-version.jpg\">IRINI&#8217;s published information<\/a> which says that it had conducted three earlier flag verification boardings during the month of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being reported that on 20 July, the EU&#8217;s Mediterranean naval taskforce IRINI boarded the Turkish-owned oil tanker, the South Star, in order to assess and investigate its flag status. Under a different name the vessel had been designated by both the EU and the UK in 2025. The report states that there was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2026\/07\/30\/eu-sanctioned-oil-tanker-boarded-in-mediterranean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EU &#8211; sanctioned oil tanker boarded in Mediterranean&#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":[114,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-european-union","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\/1304","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=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}