Swedish seizure could prompt shadow fleet flag pivot
- Caffa was seized by Swedish authorities in March
- Swedish courts have now ruled the vessel can be transferred to Ukraine
- Maritime conflict between Western states and Russia escalating from sanctions regime to ‘much wider struggle’
Following a Swedish court ruling that a vessel could be transferred to Ukraine after it was suspected of transporting ‘stolen’ grain, one lawyer says shadow fleet operators may think twice about which flag registries they use
