UK Maritime Sanctions update 25 November

On 25 November 2024, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the biggest package of UK maritime sanctions to date. Lammy told reporters the “latest round of measures against Moscow represented the biggest package of sanctions against the Russian shadow fleet” – ships which the UK believe are circumventing Western restrictions on Russian oil.

The sanctions target 30 vessels and two insurance companies, AlfaStrakhovanie and VSK. This brings the total number of tankers designated under the UK’s Russian sanctions regime to 73. The UK government claims half the ships sanctioned in this package were responsible for carrying $4.3bn worth of crude and product in the last year.

The UK government sees the introduction of the Department for Transport’s insurance reporting mechanism, designed to track suspected shadow fleet vessels transiting the English channel, as responsible for exposing the two dubious Russian insurers and sanctioning the vessel KSENA (IMO 9232888) for ignoring the UK request for information.

Vessels sanctioned in this package are:

 

Oil Tankers:

IMO Number Vessel Name
9412359 BELGOROD
9331153 DELVINA
9411020 BRATSK
9410894 VALOUR
9410870 HS EVERETT
9312896 KRASNOYARSK
9402471 FENG SHOU
9331141 KELLY GRACE
9259185 DAKSHA
9312884 KEMEROVO
9610808 ANATOLY KOLODKIN
9341093 KOLOMNA
9610793 GEORGY MASLOV
9610810 VIKTOR BAKAEV
9413559 ANTARKTIKA
9314167 AGNES
9436941 ATTICA
9299721 CEPHEUS
9290309 THEA
9321847 EMILY S
9274434 NANDA DEVI
9297371 SULEYMAN I
9319882 ATALANTA
9289752 ARIADNE
9353096 GURU
9232888 KSENA
9249130 CHILLI
9250531 PYTHON
9250543 NEOMI
9250892 MIKATI

Entities

  • ALFASTRAKHOVANIE PLC
  • VSK

Ships specified under the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 are prohibited from entering a port in the UK, may be given a movement or a port entry direction, can be detained, and will be refused permission to register on the UK Ship Register or have their existing registration terminated. In addition, the Oil Price Cap exception is not applicable to services in relation to specified ships, or to the supply or delivery of Russian oil or oil products in specified ships.