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A notorious Russian ship is scheduled to enter the penalty for transporting weapons from North Korea to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal, the first time that the ship has been involved in the arms management of Pyongyang European waters.
MAIA-1, a Russian ship full of Russian that was placed under the imposition of direct sanctions by the United States and the European Union, is installed outside the southern entrance to the main waterway that connects Asia and Europe, according to Europe. Open source centerA research set determined the ship. The declared destination for ships is a port on the Baltic coast in Russia, where Moscow builds a liquefied natural gas facility.
The ship is one of more than 20 MG-Flot’s ownership ships, a company that has also been placed under punishment by the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States. The European Union said, in its list of penalties, that the carrier was part of a “military transport network from Russian shipping ships.” It made at least nine flights to North Korea in the five months to February 2024, according to OSC.
“Maia-1 is a ship named by the United Nations Committee of North Korea experts, and many governments are punishable by its participation in the shipping of North Korea’s munitions to Russia,” said Joe Bernin, chief OSC analyst.
The arrival of this ship to European territory – and later crossing it through the waters of NATO members, including Denmark – will constitute a new challenge to the continent just as its leaders consider their willingness to continue to support Ukraine and disrupt the Russian economy.
Bern added that the trip provides “a challenge on the Western sanctions system and test their intention to take action.”
MAIA-1 started her journey in Vladivostok in the far east in Russia last month before picking up goods in a port near Shanghai. Since the departure of China, it has sailed largely with the operation of AIS respondents.
OSC said that the large elements appear to be loaded on the ship in the port of Zhangjiagang equipment between January 11 and 15. The facility has been linked to efforts to evade sanctions to provide equipment for LNG projects in Russia.
OSC satellite collected satellite showed that the ship that is loaded with things that was then covered in the joint fabric of the trip.
MAIA-1 has provided documents during a stop in Vietnam with giving its final destination like UST-Luga, the Baltic Sea Port where the new LNG station is built despite the impact of the sanctions.
Russia’s arrival in turbines and other gas liquefaction equipment has been exposed to US sanctions imposed by the White House during the era of former President Joe Biden. The US Treasury also struck the heavy shipping ships that caught to provide these plans.
The UST-Luga Lng project was delayed due to the withdrawal of the main Western partners in the wake of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and US sanctions that were presented in recent years.
Russia has another development of liquefied natural gas called a north called Arctic LNG 2, which has already received large fabricated ingredients in China.
SUEZ gives freedom to navigate to all ships under the Treaty of Constantinople Conferences for the year 1888, although ships can be stopped from crossing if they lack the appropriate insurance – a major obstacle to the penalty ships. Maia-1 is not as covered by any members of the International Insurance Companies Group.
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