Over the past three years, the maritime world has operated within a “new risk band”: from the G7’s oil price cap to crackdowns on the “shadow fleet” carrying Iranian and Russian oil. What changed in 2024–2025 is that sanctions are no longer confined to tankers; enforcement has been “spilling over” into the container supply chain via AIS monitoring, rules on anchorage/ship-to-ship (STS) transfers, insurance paperwork, legal attestations, and partner screening.