Vessels · IMO 9291250
CORTEX
As of 7 November 2026, CORTEX (IMO 9291250) is listed by the UK and Switzerland (SECO).Lists last checked .
EU port ban
○ No
not on the EU vessel list
UK
● Listed
UK Sanctions List
Switzerland
● Listed
SECO list
US
○ No
not listed
UN
○ No
not listed
This vessel is listed under a sanctions programme. Chartering, loading, bunkering, insuring, financing or otherwise dealing with it may be prohibited for persons bound by the listing authority's rules. Pause any business involving the ship until a qualified review has cleared it.
What the listing means in practice
For charterers and traders, insurers, ports and banks — per authority that lists this ship. Plain-English summaries of the legal texts; the texts prevail.
United Kingdom — binds: Anyone in the UK or its waters, and UK nationals and UK companies anywhere. Each listing states which ship measures apply.
- Charterers, traders
- Chartering or operating a specified ship, and services for its purchase, sale or transfer, are offences (since 20 May 2026).
- Insurers
- Providing financial services or funds — including insurance and reinsurance — and brokering for a specified ship is an offence.
- Ports
- No UK port access; port, movement and detention directions possible; UK registration refused or terminated.
- Banks, payments
- Not an asset freeze in itself, but financial services for the ship are prohibited. If a designated person owns it, it is frozen.
Switzerland — binds: Persons and companies in Switzerland — including Swiss-based commodity traders and shipping companies.
- Charterers, traders
- Buying, selling, chartering, operating or crewing the ship, ship-to-ship transfers with it and using its services are prohibited.
- Insurers
- Services of any kind for the ship — including financial services, insurance, brokering and registration — and financing are prohibited.
- Ports
- No port clause (landlocked), but import, transit and transport of the ship through Switzerland and Swiss registration services are prohibited.
- Banks, payments
- Not an asset freeze in itself, but financial services linked to the ship are prohibited; assets of listed persons, including their ships, are frozen.
Listing timeline
24 Dec 2024
Switzerland — SECO sanctions list
Listed as Line · Situation in Ukraine
20 May 2025
United Kingdom — UK Sanctions List
Listed as CORTEX · The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Programmes: Situation in Ukraine; The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Names, flags and identity
- Names in the lists
- CORTEX · LINE
- Flag
- Comoros
- Type
- Oil Tanker, built 2005
- IMO number
- 9291250 — stays the same through renaming and reflagging
More about this ship
- Search GUR “War & Sanctions” for IMO 9291250 ↗ — Ukrainian defence intelligence: photos, owners and movements (not an official sanctions list)
- Other listed ships under the Comoros flag →
- The listed fleet in numbers →
Legal sources
- legislation.gov.uk: Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Part 6 Ships (regs 57–57I).
- legislation.gov.uk: Russia (Sanctions) Regulations 2019, reg 46AA (services relating to specified ships) (in force 20 May 2026).
- Fedlex: Ordinance on measures in connection with the situation in Ukraine, SR 946.231.176.72, Art. 12d, Art. 15, Annex 33 (status 21 Sep 2026).