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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