FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin France seized yet another oil tanker suspected of belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” on 23 June, escalating European enforcement of sanctions on Russian energy exports. The French navy intercepted the vessel, identified as the Deliver, near Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea while it was sailing from Russia’s Primorsk oil terminal toward the Suez Canal and Singapore. Authorities said the ship was operating under a Cameroonian flag but had been removed from Cameroon’s registry weeks earlier, effectively making it stateless and in violation of international maritime law. French forces boarded and detained the tanker on that basis. RelatedNews Russia moves to simplify vessel registration with proposed reform Veson Nautical: Tanker newbuild orders surge in 2026 led by Greek owners var jnews_module_21376860_0_6a3e5dc5106f9 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21376860","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"807,783,132,3803,239","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limi