Russia-Linked Ship With Nuclear Load Held at NATO Port [View all]
Source: Newsweek
Published Apr 03, 2024 at 9:39 AM EDT | Updated Apr 04, 2024 at 9:19 AM EDT
A cargo ship that was traveling from St. Petersburg, Russia, to the United States has been held at Rostock, Germany's largest Baltic port, for weeks after sanctioned Russian uranium and lumber was found on board.
The Atlantic Navigator II, a 633-foot-long Marshall Islands-flagged vessel that departed from St. Petersburg was forced to call at the port on March 4 due to damage to its propeller, German newspaper Ostsee Zeitung reported on Thursday.
After checks that were carried out as part of monitoring compliance with foreign trade restrictions, German customs agents then held the vessel after discovering that it was transporting 40 million euros ($43 million) worth of sanctioned goods, including birch wood and enriched uranium for U.S. nuclear power plants.
The lumber came from the wood mills of a Russian oligarch who is on the European Union sanctions list, customs officials found. The European Union imposed an embargo on Russian timber in response to President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022. The restrictions came into force in July 2022, and bans the import of pellets, lumber and other wood products from Russia.
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