Sixty-four pages designate forty-two logistics firms and pull the insurance out from under the Arctic sealift. Two chartered freighters bound for Nuuk lose their indemnity certificates at sea.
Annex I is out. 42 firms designated across Panama, the Marshalls, Singapore, Canada. Seven ice-class hulls named.
Polar Starling and Nordic Trader are both mid-ocean, Halifax to Nuuk, and their Scandinavian underwriters have just pulled their P&I certificates. Those crews are at sea, uninsured, and legally entitled to refuse to continue.
the thing nobody tells you about living through history is how much of it is just checking your phone at work and going "oh no" and then serving the next customer
Watching Europe discover sanctions from the receiving end has been an education in tone.
For forty years we were told that restrictive measures are a neutral instrument of the rules-based order. Three weeks of being on the wrong side of a payment rail and suddenly the language is about sovereignty and coercion.
I am not enjoying this. I am simply noting that the vocabulary changed very fast.