Ukraine’s Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA) has announced it will auction the Anka, a Turkish-owned dry cargo vessel seized for violating Ukrainian sanctions by docking in a port in Russian-occupied Crimea. The sale marks the latest enforcement action in Ukraine’s increasingly assertive maritime sanctions regime targeting foreign-flagged ships trading with the annexed peninsula.

The 20-year-old, 5,000 dwt Anka was arrested following its unauthorised port call in Crimea, an act prohibited under Ukraine’s law on temporarily occupied territories. 

ARMA has now completed all inventory and valuation procedures, paving the way for the vessel’s sale through a state-run electronic auction.

The ship will be listed for sale on Ukraine’s SETAM electronic trading platform, a government-run marketplace for seized and forfeited property. Proceeds from the auction will be directed to the Ukrainian state budget, as per ARMA’s mandate.