The notice comes as three tankers that loaded roughly 140,000 metric tons of Russian diesel at the Baltic port of Primorsk—the Agioi Fanendes, Talisman and Leruo—remain without a US buyer and are sailing “for orders” across the Atlantic despite the Treasury Department’s Oct 16 sanctions waiver. A fourth vessel, the Primorye, secured a buyer in Nassau after also seeking orders. The 40,000 ton cargo aboard the Agioi Fanendes, which initially signaled New York for a Nov 7 arrival in what would be the first Russian fuel shipment to the US since 2022, has dropped the port as its listed destination as US oil companies refuse administration pressure to buy the discounted barrels.

Energy firms have shunned the cargoes over reputational risks and fears of congressional investigations, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers contends the Treasury license cannot override the 2022 statutory ban on Russian oil imports. House and Senate Democrats have asked six major Wall Street banks and port authorities in New York and New Jersey, Houston, Beaumont and Corpus Christi to preserve transaction records, while House Republicans including Rep. Don Bacon have threatened to block $350 billion in Pentagon funding and oppose Trump’s lame-duck legislative agenda over the policy shift.