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PAPERS, PLEASE: HOW EUROPE IS CRACKING DOWN ON RUSSIA’S SHADOW FLEET
>Two more nations have joined Denmark in aiming to directly curb Russia’s sanctions-evading vessels.
> Sweden and Germany joined Denmark as coastal nations that will request insurance paperwork from tankers transiting their waters or headed for the vital Danish Straits, the key chokepoint for Russia’s exports of crude oil and oil products.
> the lack of proper insurance (principally to pay for the cost of any oil spills) is both the biggest fear Baltic nations have of Russia’s aged and under-regulated fleet and a good indicator of nefarious activity. The idea is that ships without proper insurance—the European Union just banned a big Russian insurer that it said had been providing dubious cover for Moscow’s shadow fleet—will be added to the already large and growing roster of blacklisted vessels by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the EU. That is meant to further constrain Russia’s ability to sidestep Western sanctions on its energy sector and keep financing the war.
> countries such as Sweden and Germany are, like Denmark, taking baby steps toward a more aggressive interpretation of their maritime rights, steps that seemed just a year ago to be legally risky, by interfering, however slightly, with the unfettered and innocent passage of ships through international waters.
> Russia predictably calls the new insurance requirements “piracy,” though it patently is not. But Moscow does have a point that coastal states that start to question innocent passage while they are at peace risk a slippery slope that could undermine the global rules of the waterways.
> “It’s not ‘piracy,’ but that doesn’t mean there aren’t limits, and we have to be sure we don’t overstep them,” Siig said.
https://archive.md/wrlAE
PAPERS, PLEASE: HOW EUROPE IS CRACKING DOWN ON RUSSIA’S SHADOW FLEET
>Two more nations have joined Denmark in aiming to directly curb Russia’s sanctions-evading vessels.
> Sweden and Germany joined Denmark as coastal nations that will request insurance paperwork from tankers transiting their waters or headed for the vital Danish Straits, the key chokepoint for Russia’s exports of crude oil and oil products.
> the lack of proper insurance (principally to pay for the cost of any oil spills) is both the biggest fear Baltic nations have of Russia’s aged and under-regulated fleet and a good indicator of nefarious activity. The idea is that ships without proper insurance—the European Union just banned a big Russian insurer that it said had been providing dubious cover for Moscow’s shadow fleet—will be added to the already large and growing roster of blacklisted vessels by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the EU. That is meant to further constrain Russia’s ability to sidestep Western sanctions on its energy sector and keep financing the war.
> countries such as Sweden and Germany are, like Denmark, taking baby steps toward a more aggressive interpretation of their maritime rights, steps that seemed just a year ago to be legally risky, by interfering, however slightly, with the unfettered and innocent passage of ships through international waters.
> Russia predictably calls the new insurance requirements “piracy,” though it patently is not. But Moscow does have a point that coastal states that start to question innocent passage while they are at peace risk a slippery slope that could undermine the global rules of the waterways.
> “It’s not ‘piracy,’ but that doesn’t mean there aren’t limits, and we have to be sure we don’t overstep them,” Siig said.
https://archive.md/wrlAE
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