It's an honest question that I have.. While this article in the link is about the hijacked cargo ship I noticed port of delivery. From China to Bandar Abbas (don't ask me about such things, you don't have time). While the U.S. Sanctions don't apply to China, and the commodity is a food product, I'm sure the shipment was cleared to go. But from first hand accounts, there are shipments constantly going to countries that have sanctions against them and the perp is usually Russia and China. For example, I saw a rate inquiry for a shipment of 50x40' from Shanghai to Cuba. The commodity was "bottles for beer". Not bottle of beer, mind you. Just bottles. I can think of a lot of things that those bottles can be used for outside of beer.
I mean that is a lot of containers. 50 containers of beer bottles. I might be making too much out of this but I sure hope it's for the visits of the Russian and China leaders and not Petro bombs.
Do sanctions really work?
