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Despite sanctions on other types of steel products, the EU has not imposed restrictions on Russian wheels.
According to investigators, the ship repeatedly docked at the port of Sevastopol during 2023-2024 to load stolen agricultural products.
David Cameron believes it is unacceptable that tankers carrying Russian crude oil are even allowed to approach EU ports.
The EU has already imposed sanctions on metallurgical goods from Russia, but the Kremlin managed to secure quotas for an additional four years.
This generates billions of dollars in profit for Russia.
The confiscated yacht, Royal Romance, has been designated as a Ukrainian state vessel, meaning that it is now the national property of Ukraine and falls under the country’s jurisdiction.
Despite Western sanctions, Russia continues to reap super profits from oil exports.
By the end of the year, the Russians expect to ship 70 million tons of crude oil, which is significantly more than they shipped in 2022.
It recommends that the European Commission improve the European legislation on sanctions compliance in the shipping industry.
The volume of cargo transshipment in Russian ports on the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea decreased slightly, but the volume of cargo transshipment in the port of Novorossiysk increased by 6%.
Improved weather in the Far East facilitated the increase in Russia’s crude oil exports.
Almost 70% of this amount was transshipped off the coast of Greece, but there were also direct ship calls at European ports.
Deliveries of crude oil from Russia to Europe decreased tenfold.
Russian ports in the Azov-Black Sea basin increased cargo handling by 12%.
Russia recently admitted that the increase in its flour exports is facilitated by a decrease in flour exports from Ukraine.
In total, Russian ports increased cargo handling by almost 8%.
About a third of the available airliners in Russia could be used as spare parts for other aircraft.
The sharp increase in cargo transshipment is connected with the export of agricultural products from the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia.