Sophia

Sanctions listings

From official lists as of 6 Oct 2026: US (OFAC SDN List); UK Sanctions List; EU (Annex XLII, Reg. 833/2014). The US list does not give listing dates. A listing records a government's decision; it is not a finding by us.

Recorded flags

The flag each government's list has recorded for this ship since January 2022, newest first. US dates are when the US list added or amended the entry; the first UK date is when the UK entry was last updated before we began tracking it. A recorded flag is not a live registry check. See Flags & fleet for how this is compiled.

Our reporting

• 29 Jan 2026US hands seized tanker Sophia back to Venezuelaas Sophia
• 7 Jan 2026US seizes Venezuela-trading tanker days after it switched to the Russian flagas Sophia

How this ship is identified

• Ukraine's GUR ship database records that US Southern Command detained the tanker M Sophia, IMO 9289477, in the Caribbean on 7 January 2026; that IMO is on the US and UK sanctions lists as M Sophia.
• Identified through the War & Sanctions ship database of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence (GUR), a government source and a party to the war.

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