Norway will now investigate how it can ban tankers from entering its ports if they are involved in suspicious ship-to-ship transfers of Russian oil.

This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on October 2.

According to the country’s Foreign Minister, Anniken Huitfeldt, the reason why this is still under consideration is that the country is still investigating how best to implement a ban on access to Norwegian ports in the legislation.

With this announcement, Norway shows that it wants to match the EU’s 11th sanctions package, which was introduced in June in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

”In solidarity with Ukraine, we support all EU sanctions packages. The 11th sanctions package aims to strengthen existing sanctions and crack down on their circumvention. This is important because it is urgent to curb the flow of money that Russia is using to finance its brutal war of aggression,” the Norwegian Foreign Minister said in the statement.