{"id":50827,"date":"2026-04-06T06:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/sweden-seizes-chemical-tanker-suspected-of-illegal-baltic-oil-spill\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:12:54","slug":"sweden-seizes-chemical-tanker-suspected-of-illegal-baltic-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/sweden-seizes-chemical-tanker-suspected-of-illegal-baltic-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden seizes chemical tanker suspected of illegal Baltic oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Swedish authorities have seized a Sierra Leone-flagged chemical tanker on suspicion of carrying out an illegal oil spill in the Baltic Sea. The 21-year-old Flora 1 was detained by Swedish authorities in the early hours of Friday following suspicions that the vessel had discharged\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#666;border-left:3px solid #c0392b;padding-left:10px;margin-top:1.5em;\"><em>Splash247<\/em> &middot; Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/sweden-seizes-chemical-tanker-suspected-of-illegal-baltic-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Splash247<\/a> &middot; 6 April 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/sweden-seizes-chemical-tanker-suspected-of-illegal-baltic-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read full article on Splash247 &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish authorities have seized a Sierra Leone-flagged chemical tanker on suspicion of carrying out an illegal oil spill in the Baltic Sea. The 21-year-old Flora 1 was detained by Swedish authorities in the early hours of Friday following suspicions that the vessel had discharged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/splash247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BalticSweden.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Sweden seizes chemical tanker suspected of illegal Baltic oil spill","footnotes":""},"categories":[9007],"tags":[9008,8837],"class_list":["post-50827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-security","tag-breaking-news","tag-splash247"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}