{"id":18864,"date":"2026-02-19T21:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/18864\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:58:06","slug":"denmark-detains-russian-bound-container-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/18864\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark detains Russian-bound container ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<p>                                        COPENHAGEN: <\/p>\n<p>The Danish Maritime Authority said Thursday it had decided to hold a container ship arriving from Saint Petersburg, citing a lack of proper registration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vessel is being held on the grounds that it is not properly registered,&#8221; the authority told AFP in an email.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ship had declared that it was sailing under the flag of the Comoros. The Comoros informed the Maritime Authority that the vessel was not listed in their register,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Danish media has identified the ship as the Iranian-flagged Nora, the vessel anchored just north of Denmark, in the Kattegat strait.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the maritime tracking website VesselFinder, it left Saint Petersburg on January 16, bound for Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>According to broadcaster TV2, the ship, which was previously named Cerus, is subject to US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The ship is reportedly part of an Iranian fleet of ships controlled, according to US authorities, by Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani &#8212; son of Ali Shamkhani, a top political advisor to Iran&#8217;s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":". COPENHAGEN: The Danish Maritime Authority said Thursday it had decided to hold a container ship arriving from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,7297,1827],"class_list":{"0":"post-18864","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-latest","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18864","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=18864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}