US regulators have sanctioned eight ships in seven weeks for breaching the oil price cap on Russia, including one from the so-called dark fleet of elderly, anonymously owned sanctions circumventing tankers

Public relations company issues second statement on behalf of registered owner and shipmanger since car carrier was hijacked on November 19

Crackdown on tankers breaching G7 sanctions over October and November by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control thought to be the trigger for the Greek exit

Assembly to debate a resolution to address the dangerous and illegal shipping practices of a dark fleet of sanctions-circumventing tankers and decide whether to expel Russia from of the IMO Council

Western-linked ships visibly return for the first time since mid-2020, when prominent Greece-based shipowners were briefly blacklisted, triggering a pledge from their lobby group to leave trades

The EU and US governments are reportedly in talks with Denmark to inspect and possibly block tankers without known insurance. Whether that would include those that dropped anchor at the Skagen anchorage was not spelled out