When US President Joe Biden announced a ban on the country’s limited Russian energy imports, provisions buried in the measure placed restrictions on Americans’ involvement in Russian energy transport.
But those measures — unlike those targeting Iran — did not make shipping a major target, for now at least.
Transport’s inclusion in the fine print of Biden’s executive order adds to a growing array of sanctions evolving on a seemingly daily basis in Washington’s bid to punish Moscow for Russia’s war on Ukraine.
