BEWARE-SANCTIONS CAN AFFECT EVERY OPERATOR, SAYS THE SWEDISH CLUB

As stories of the oil price cap fill the press, readers could be forgiven for thinking that sanctions concern only tanker operators and the oil industry. But as Torbjörn Claesson, Corporate Lawyer at The Swedish Club points out - operators running bulk carriers and container ships can still be impacted by sanctions.

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Claesson was speaking in Oslo at the recent Marine Insurance Nordics conference. "Container ships, for example, can carry potentially thousands of articles that are sanctioned," he said. "Bulk carrier operators too have to be careful. The issue with Russian sanctions is that they target many industries - but not all - and also many products - but with specific exceptions. For example, a bulk carrier operator cannot carry aluminium. There is only one exception relating to aluminum of a thickness of