Joe Biden's inauguration as US president is a time for shipping to lobby for policy changes. Ending US unilateral sanctions on international trading should be one of the headline goals for shipping, in partnership with its banking and trading partners.
The political and moral case against sanctions is too familiar to make in detail here.
Trading sanctions are politically ineffective against the intended targets, commercially costly to the countries that impose them, and morally indefensible for the harm they inflict on innocent populations.
