Russian Black Sea Crude Oil Imports to the EU Embargo: Database of September 2025 Violations

21:00 07.10.2025

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 September 2025 (see Table 1).

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In September 2025, 6 violations of the EU embargo on seaborne imports of Russian crude oil from the Black Sea were recorded.

Two of them were involved the delivery of crude oil to the ports of the EU countries. Four voyages were made to the transshipment points near the EU ports.

Shipowners from Greece (4) and Germany (2).

In September 2025, a total of 718.961 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 September 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
04/09	TAMARA Crude oil tanker	9600889	157016	Liberia	2015	RU NVS	2025-08-31 18:47	HR OMI	2025-09-07 21:45	Ship manager/Commercial manager TMS TANKERS LTD 109, Kifisias Avenue & Sina Street, Marousi, 151 24, Athens, Greece. Registered owner CALLISTO OWNING CO LTD C/O: TMS Tankers Ltd 109, Kifisias Avenue & Sina Street, Marousi, 151 24, Athens, Greece.
07/09	ALTAI Crude oil tanker	9446427	115952	Marshall Is	2011	RU NVS	2025-09-06 10:04	RO MID ANCH in territorial sea	2025-09-07 21:30	Ship manager/Commercial manager COLUMBIA SHIPMANAGEMENT-GEU Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany. Registered owner ALTAI SHIPPING LTD C/O: Columbia Shipmanagement (Deutschland) GmbH Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany
08/09	DUKE II Crude oil tanker	9254240	47024	Panama	2003	RU TUA	2025-09-03 23:05	STS south of CY LMS outside the territorial sea CY	2025-09-11 03:16	Ship manager/Commercial manager SR NAVIGATION SA 40, Nafsikas Street, Voula, 166 73, Athens, Greece. Registered owner SAGITTARIUS MARITIME VENTURES C/O: SR Navigation SA 40, Nafsikas Street, Voula, 166 73, Athens, Greece
19/09	ALTAI Crude oil tanker	9446427	115952	Marshall Is	2011	RU NVS	2025-09-16 04:23	RO MID ANCH in territorial sea	2025-09-18 06:45	Ship manager/Commercial manager COLUMBIA SHIPMANAGEMENT-GEU Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany. Registered owner ALTAI SHIPPING LTD C/O: Columbia Shipmanagement (Deutschland) GmbH Grosse Elbstrasse 275, 22767, Hamburg, Germany.
21/09	EVRIDIKI Crude oil tanker	9318137	167294	Liberia	2007	RU NVS	2025-09-18	BG BOJ	2025-09-21	Ship manager/Commercial manager LIQUIMAR TANKERS MANAGEMENT 3, Alopekis Street, 106 75, Athens, Greece. Registered owner EVRIDIKI NAVIGATION INC C/O: Liquimar Tankers Management Inc 3, Alopekis Street, 106 75, Athens, Greece
30/09	NISSOS PAROS Crude oil tanker	9592290	115723	Greece	2012	RU NVS	2025-09-28 22:10	RO MID ANCH in territorial sea	2025-09-30 10:00	Ship manager/Commercial manager KYKLADES MARITIME CORP 2, Ethnarchou Makariou Street & Dimitrios Falireos Street, 185 47, Piraeus, Greece. Registered owner ZENITH MARITIME CORP C/O: Kyklades Maritime Corp 2, Ethnarchou Makariou Street & Dimitrios Falireos Street, 185 47, Piraeus, Greece.

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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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