News / Shippers must do more to stop sanctions against Russia being broken, call

Shippers must do more to prevent Russian sanctions being broken, it was claimed this week, their carriers and logistics partners having to shoulder too much of the responsibility.

Recent weeks have seen a raft of stories on attempts, successful and otherwise, to bypass the more than 16,500 sanctions placed on Russia following its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Daniil Melnychenko, of Odessa-based maritime consultancy Informall BG, told The Loadstar: “Sanctions do work on the big scale, ...