The UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has recently published the ‘Maritime Guidance on financial sanctions’. Ursula O’Donnell, Divisional Claims Director and Yassmin Hamzeh, Claims Assistant of The Standard Club, on Monday (3 August) posted a summary of the document and outlined what would be considered ‘suspicious shipping practices’:
On 27 July 2020 the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) which is responsible for enforcing financial sanctions in the UK issued Maritime Guidance (the Guidance) for entities operating within the maritime shipping sector. It follows on from and largely mirrors the US Global Maritime Advisory which was issued by the US authorities in May 2020. The club issued a news item regarding the Advisory and a circular which sets out the International Group’s response to it.
The Guidance should be reviewed by members who are domiciled in the UK or who conduct business connected with the UK. Whilst the UK is still bound by existing EU sanctions laws until it departs from the EU at the end of the transition period (which is 31 December 2020), it has the power to introduce new sanctions (under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018).
The Guidance highlights a number of illicit and suspicious shipping practices that are deployed to evade sanctions, which includes:
It emphasises the importance of adopting due diligence and compliance measures and provides recommendations for those operating in the maritime sector which includes:
The Guidance also provides details of the financial sanctions imposed by the EU (and UN) against North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria and concludes by outlining OFSI’s enforcement powers in the UK.
We advise members to review the Guidance and contact their usual club contact should they have any queries.
Source: The Standard Club
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Published: 5 August, 2020
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