Russian Crude Oil Imports to the EU Embargo: Database of April 2025 Violations

09:00 15.05.2025
Russia

The Monitoring Group of BlackSeaNews
and the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies

The Monitoring Group of the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies and BlackSeaNews reports on the results of its own monitoring of violations of the embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil into EU countries in April 2025 (see Table 1).

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In April 2025, 5 violations of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil from the Black Sea were recorded.

All of them were involved the delivery of crude oil to the ports of the EU countries.

Shipowners from Germany (3) and Greece (2).

In April 2025, a total of 654.456 tons of Russian crude oil were delivered to the EU in violation of the embargo.

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Table 1. Tankers that transported Russia’s crude oil in violation of the embargo from Russian ports on the Black Sea to EU countries in April 2025

Data on shipowners and operators — from www.equasis.org
The first column of the table shows the date of a vessel's passage from the Sea of Marmara through the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea

#

Name

IMO

DWT

Flag

Year built

Port of departure

Actual Time of Departure

Port of destination

Estimated Time of Arrival

Shipowner

05/04 

SAFEEN ELONA
Crude oil tanker 

9488011 

105258 

Marshall Is 

2012 

RU NVS 

2025-04-04 08:39

RO MID ANCH in territorial sea  

2025-04-06 08:20 

Ship manager/Commercial manager COLUMBIA SHIPMANAGEMENT-GEU Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany.
Registered owner SAFEEN TANKERS 22 LTD C/O: Columbia Shipmanagement (Deutschland) GmbH Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany. 

05/04 

MATALA
Crude oil tanker 

9776743 

158714 

Malta 

2017 

RU NVS 

2025-03-31 23:59

HR OMI 

2025-04-09 15:45  

Registered owner TONGXING INTERNATIONAL SHIP C/O: TMS Tankers Ltd 109, Kifisias Avenue & Sina Street, Marousi, 151 24, Athens, Greece.
Ship manager/Commercial manager TMS TANKERS LTD 109, Kifisias Avenue & Sina Street, Marousi, 151 24, Athens, Greece. 

12/04 

ALATAU
Crude oil tanker 

9416551 

115896 

Marshall Is 

2009 

RU NVS 

2025-04-10 19:25

RO CND ANCH in territorial sea 

2025-04-12 14:55 

Ship manager/Commercial manager COLUMBIA SHIPMANAGEMENT-GEU Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany.
Registered owner ALATAU SHIPPING LTD C/O: Columbia Shipmanagement (Deutschland) GmbH Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany. 

20/04 

MALIBU
Crude oil tanker 

9776731 

158692 

Malta 

2017 

RU NVS 

2025-04-19 00:54

BG BOJ ANCH 

2025-04-20 16:55

Registered owner HAOWANG INTERNATIONAL SHIP C/O: TMS Tankers Ltd 109, Kifisias Avenue & Sina Street, Marousi, 151 24, Athens, Greece.
Ship manager/Commercial manager TMS TANKERS LTD 109, Kifisias Avenue & Sina Street, Marousi, 151 24, Athens, Greece 

22/04 

ALATAU
Crude oil tanker AK 

9416551 

115896 

Marshall Is 

2009 

RU NVS 

2025-04-21 

RO MID ANCH in territorial sea  

2025-04-23 10:57 

Ship manager/Commercial manager COLUMBIA SHIPMANAGEMENT-GEU Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany.
Registered owner ALATAU SHIPPING LTD C/O: Columbia Shipmanagement (Deutschland) GmbH Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany. 

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This publication has been produced with the support of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED). Its contents do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of EED. Responsibility for the information and views expressed in this publication lies entirely with the authors.

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