Sanctions

The cost of insurance for tankers transporting Russian oil from the Black Sea has increased by 200%. Freight rates have also increased.

Routes have become longer, insurance has become more expensive, and political decisions have turned compliance into a full-fledged operational function – in 2025, these three factors had the strongest impact on freight rates, schedules, and tonnage availability.

USM continues the series of materials about what 2025 was like for global and Ukrainian shipping. This time, we recall the challenges that global carriers faced and what the shipping world will remember about the past year.

In the new sanctions package, Finland and Sweden called for a ban on the export of luxury goods to Russia and the servicing of Russian oil tankers.

Ukrainian foreign intelligence reports a deepening systemic crisis in the Russian oil industry due to sanctions pressure and sales problems.

The Ukrainian Maritime Trade Union told sailors how to check whether the vessel on which they have been offered a job is on the sanctions lists.

The Embassy of Ukraine in the United States has made an official request as to whether Ukrainian citizens were among the crew members of the detained tankers.

The document provides for the introduction of new tools to punish countries that buy Russian oil. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, after a meeting with US President Donald Trump, received approval to advance a bipartisan bill on sanctions against Russia. He reported this in X. According to Graham, the document, which he worked on together with Democratic…

A drone attacked the Palau-flagged oil tanker Elbus off the coast of Turkey in the Black Sea.

Two ships with military cargo left the Russian Baltiysk, one of which is heading to Syria, and the other to Libya.

The crew of the tanker Bella 1, which was heading to Venezuela and which the US military tried to stop in the Caribbean Sea, managed to obtain protection in Russia.