{"id":4795,"date":"2026-03-04T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/4795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:52:10","slug":"belgium-imposes-fine-of-over-e10-million-on-detained-shadow-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/4795\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium imposes fine of over \u20ac10 million on detained shadow tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian government has imposed a surety of \u20ac10,020,000 on the oil tanker Ethera, linked to Russia\u2019s shadow fleet, after it was seized in the port of Zeebrugge on 1 March.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel, en route from Morocco to Saint Petersburg, <a href=\"https:\/\/safety4sea.com\/belgium-seizes-suspected-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was boarded overnight during a coordinated intervention<\/a> involving 93 Belgian soldiers, prepared in collaboration with French forces. Inspectors from the Directorate-General for Shipping identified 45 violations, mostly related to false certificates and technical defects, after discovering the tanker was sailing under a false Guinean flag.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-member crew, including a Russian captain, seven officers of Indian, Georgian, and Indonesian origin, and 13 other Indian crew members, must remain on board under a \u201cpassenger ban,\u201d meaning they cannot disembark or enter Belgian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The tanker will only be allowed to leave once the surety is paid and a follow-up inspection confirms full compliance with all regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Belgian government has imposed a surety of \u20ac10,020,000 on the oil tanker Ethera, linked to Russia\u2019s shadow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,3681,3237],"class_list":{"0":"post-4795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-fines","10":"tag-shadow-fleet"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116171947695271234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}