Norway has imposed sanctions on two fishing companies from Russia: Norebo JSC and Murman Seafood.
These companies were added to the EU’s sanctions list in May 2025. The justification for the sanctions was that the companies were part of a surveillance campaign that carried out espionage and sabotage missions on critical infrastructure, including undersea cables.
Norway used the same reasoning.
“Such activity may facilitate future sabotage operations and threaten important Norwegian security policy interests,” said Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide.
The listing of the two shipping companies entails an obligation to freeze funds and assets belonging to, owned, held, or controlled by the entities, as well as a prohibition against making funds and assets available to or for the benefit of the listed entities.
The Norwegian government’s decision means that the ships of these two companies will be denied access to Norwegian ports and territorial waters.
