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COPENHAGEN, Feb 19 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Denmark\u2019s maritime authority said on Thursday it had detained an Iran<\/a>-flagged container vessel anchored in the Nordic country\u2019s waters on the grounds that it was not properly registered.<\/p>\n The ship, using the name \u201cNora\u201d according to LSEG data, was initially sailing under a Comoros flag, but Comoros informed Denmark that the vessel was not found in its registry, the\u00a0Danish\u00a0authority told Reuters by email.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ship is detained until a flag state can demonstrate to the\u00a0Danish\u00a0maritime authority that it is registered and fully certified,\u201d the authority said, adding it would conduct a port state inspection of the vessel before it could be released.<\/p>\n \u201cThe inspection will be conducted when weather conditions make it safe to do so,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n LSEG data show the \u201cNora\u201d is now under the Iranian flag.<\/p>\n According to\u00a0Danish\u00a0broadcaster TV2, which first reported the news, the vessel changed its flag from Comoros to Iran on Wednesday. Reuters was not able to independently verify when the change happened.<\/p>\n The \u201cNora\u201d shares the same International Maritime Organisation number as a vessel formerly named CERUS, a container ship on the U.S. Treasury\u2019s sanctions list, according to LSEG data.<\/p>\n IMO numbers are permanent vessel identifiers that remain unchanged, irrespective of name changes or flag switches.<\/p>\n The CERUS was designated under the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Iran sanctions program and is linked to Argun Shipping Inc. and Reel Shipping LLC, LSEG data show.<\/p>\n Reuters was not able to reach Argun or Reel Shipping for comment.<\/p>\n The vessel has been lying idle the past 25 days, according to TV2.<\/p>\n (Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, Soren Jeppesen and Louise Rasmussen. Editing by Terje Solsvik and Mark Potter)<\/p>\n (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2026.<\/p>\n Editorial Standards<\/a> \u00b7 Corrections<\/a> \u00b7 About gCaptain<\/a><\/p>\n This article contains reporting from Reuters, published under license.<\/p>\n \t\t Sign up for gCaptain\u2019s newsletter and never miss an update<\/p>\n \u2014 trusted by our 107,257 members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPENHAGEN, Feb 19 (Reuters)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Denmark\u2019s maritime authority said on Thursday it had detained an Iran-flagged container vessel anchored in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,2271,13224],"class_list":{"0":"post-18824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denmark","8":"tag-danmark","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-sanctions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"logo\"\/](\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/wp-content\/themes\/gCaptain-Theme\/assets\/images\/gcaptain-new-gray-logo.svg\"){kind=logo}
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