Russian Baltic Sea Ports Petroleum Products Imports to the EU Embargo: Database of July 2025 Violations

14:00 15.08.2025
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 EU and G7 embargo on the seaborne imports of Russian petroleum products into EU countries and the US (the embargo) from the ports on the Baltic Sea in July 2025 (see Table 1).

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In July 2025, 4 violations (236.395 tons) of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian petroleum products (excluding crude oil) to the transshipment points and EU/US ports from the Baltic Sea were recorded.

The voyages were made by tankers belonging to shipowners registered in Greece, China, Turkey and Bangladesh.

Note: Where we are talking about tankers with oil products (not crude oil tankers), they may theoretically contain goods that are not prohibited, such as vegetable oil or chemical fertilisers, rather than oil products. In the Russian Federation, port websites have been closed since 24.02.2022, and access to customs databases has also been closed. Therefore, we believe that these are petroleum products, as the volume of exports of vegetable oil and chemical fertilisers is ten times less than diesel or petrol. But sometimes mistakes happen - we become aware of them when shipowners see themselves on our website and send documents about the cargo. Then we remove them from our ‘black lists’ .

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Table 1. Tankers Transporting Petroleum Products from the Russian Baltic Sea Ports in July 2025 in violation of the EU embargo (database)

Data on shipowners and operators — from www.equasis.org

Name

IMO

DWT

Flag

Year built

Port of departure

Actual Time of Departure

Port of destination

Estimated Time of Arrival

Registered owner

 

HARDRADA 

Oil Products Tanker  

9344007 

45983 

Liberia  

2007 

RU PRI 

2025-07-03 07:25

STS LAKONIKOS GULF outside the territorial sea GR 

2025-07-18 21:24 

Registered owner WETFUEL SHIPPING INC C/O: Fleet Management Ltd 27th Floor, South Island Place, 8, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Southern, Hong Kong, China.
Ship manager/Commercial manager FLEET MANAGEMENT LTD-HKG 27th Floor, South Island Place, 8, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Southern District, Hong Kong, China.  

MARALTA 

Oil Products Tanker 

9324320 

76580 

Antigua and Barbuda 

2007 

RU PRI 

2025-07-10 01:32

STS LAKONIKOS GULF outside the territorial sea GR 

 

 

2025-07-26 16:00

Registered owner OCEANICOASIS MARITIME LTD Lagon Plaza, Nazan Sokak 2/6, Evliya Celebi Mah, Tuzla, 34944, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ship manager/Commercial manager OCEANICOASIS MARITIME LTD Lagon Plaza, Nazan Sokak 2/6, Evliya Celebi Mah, Tuzla, 34944, Istanbul, Turkey. 

PORTOFINO 

Oil Products Tanker 

9564671 

74905 

Bahamas 

2010 

RU PRI 

2025-07-23 07:27

STS south of the port CY LMS Cyprus 

2025-08-09 14:01

Registered owner SAGITTARIUS MANAGEMENT INC C/O: Alberta Shipmanagement Ltd 26A, Ioannou Apostolopoulou Street, Chalandri, 152 31, Athens, Greece.
Ship manager/Commercial manager ALBERTA SHIPMANAGEMENT LTD 26A, Ioannou Apostolopoulou Street, Chalandri, 152 31, Athens, Greece. 

BANGLAR AGRAGOTI 

Chemical/Oil Products Tanker 

9793870 

38927 

Bangladesh 

2019 

RU LED 

2025-07-28 02:00

US ILG 

2025-08-16 08:00

Registered owner BANGLADESH SHIPPING CORP 4th Floor, Amin Court, PO Box 53, 62-63, Toyenbee Circular Road, Motijheel Commercial Area, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh.
Ship manager/Commercial manager BANGLADESH SHIPPING CORP 4th Floor, Amin Court, PO Box 53, 62-63, Toyenbee Circular Road, Motijheel Commercial Area, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh.  

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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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