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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jonathan Humphries

Tanker carrying Russian oil docks at Tranmere but 'no sanctions breached'

A tanker carrying Russian oil has docked at Tranmere terminal thanks to a loophole in government sanctions.

The vessel, Seacod, sails under a German flag but collected the oil in the Russian port of Primorsk, where 30% of Russian oil exports are loaded onto ships.

It left Primorsk on February 22 and arrived in Tranmere yesterday at around 11.36am.

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