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A US senator has demanded that Greek shipping company Eastern Mediterranean Maritime recall the tanker Agioi Fanendes before it delivers a cargo of Russian diesel to a US port.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has denounced European Union detentions of tankers in the Baltic Sea as hostile provocations, escalating tensions over the bloc’s crackdown on Moscow’s sanctions-evading shadow fleet.
George Vardinogiannis, a Greek shipping executive and former Panathinaikos FC president, has died in Athens at the age of 90.
The French Navy boarded the sanctioned Russia-linked tanker DF Peak on the high seas more than 450 nautical miles south of Réunion Island over suspicions of false flagging and illicit fuel transport.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have formally asked the European Union to ban the transit of Russian grain through EU territory, arguing Moscow is using the bloc’s ports and infrastructure to offset losses from Ukrainian strikes on its Black Sea export terminals.
Russia’s seaborne crude exports climbed to a multi-week high amid rising Middle East tensions, but a Kremlin ban on diesel exports is offsetting much of the financial gain from higher tanker shipments.
European Union countries have paid an estimated €7.28 billion for liquefied natural gas from Russia’s Yamal Arctic project between January and early September 2026, already exceeding the bloc’s full-year 2025 spending on the same trade.
Sanctions, a growing shadow fleet and geopolitical tensions are redrawing global maritime trade routes, pushing compliance to the center of decision-making for Greek shipowners.
The global dark fleet has swelled past 1,300 tankers as Washington blockades Venezuela’s sanctioned oil trade and seizes the tanker Marinera.
Iran has blacklisted 45 vessels trading through the Strait of Hormuz, threatening fines, detention, and cargo confiscation — even as Oman-Iran talks on a joint shipping corridor progress.
