Under UNCLOS at least, a country can board a ship within its territorial waters to investigate a crime “if the consequences of the crime extend to the coastal State” (and some other reasons). Sinking it is almost certainly illegal, but it’s an unarmed ship and Finland has marines so I can’t imagine that they’d have much trouble boarding it if they wanted to
They are russian flagged vessels right? What does that mean in terms of ability to do things about them?
I assume you can’t legally just board/sink them, even with cause?
No, this specific ship is registered in the Cook Islands.
As are many I believe? Like how most US companies incorporate in Delaware I think it’s for tax reasons.
Under UNCLOS at least, a country can board a ship within its territorial waters to investigate a crime “if the consequences of the crime extend to the coastal State” (and some other reasons). Sinking it is almost certainly illegal, but it’s an unarmed ship and Finland has marines so I can’t imagine that they’d have much trouble boarding it if they wanted to
Ty, I was expecting them to be russian flagged to ‘dare’ NATO to mess with them as an excuse to do… Something