• AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    The headline is sensationalized. They called the shipping company and told them they weren’t allowed to so they voluntarily sailed the ship to a US port.

    FTA:

    In April, the company operating the ship carrying the oil, Empire Navigation, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The IRCG was fined almost $2.5 million and was sentenced to three years of corporate probation. The company’s vessel, Suez Rajan Limited, transported the contraband to the US and “incurred the significant expenses associated with the vessel’s voyage to the United States,” according to the DOJ.