{"id":893,"date":"2025-04-14T06:28:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=893"},"modified":"2025-04-14T06:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:28:47","slug":"estonia-seizure-of-russian-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/04\/14\/estonia-seizure-of-russian-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia &#8211; seizure of Russian shadow fleet oil tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/article\/estonian-navy-detains-stateless-tanker-with-dozens-of-deficiencies\">the Estonian Navy<\/a> has seized an oil tanker (the <em>Kiwala<\/em>) forming part of the so-called &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221;. The <em>Kiwala<\/em> is designated by the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a routine inspection of the vessel&#8217;s documentation, it was determined that the vessel was not validly flagged in any country and did not have valid insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vessel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/04\/13\/russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-detained-in-estonia-has-40-deficiencies-a88711\">has been detained pending <\/a>rectification of the documentation and other safety issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the Estonian Navy has seized an oil tanker (the Kiwala) forming part of the so-called &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221;. The Kiwala is designated by the EU. During a routine inspection of the vessel&#8217;s documentation, it was determined that the vessel was not validly flagged in any country and did not have valid insurance. The vessel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2025\/04\/14\/estonia-seizure-of-russian-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estonia &#8211; seizure of Russian shadow fleet oil tanker&#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":[95,70],"tags":[50,18,34],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-estonia","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\/893","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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}