FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin In the early days of April, Swedish authorities investigated and briefly detained the sanctioned tanker Flora 1 after a 12+ km oil spill was discovered east of Gotland, but ultimately closed the case after confirming its registration and finding no provable environmental crime. On April 2, 2026, the Swedish Coast Guard discovered a mineral oil spill east of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The slick was initially more than 12 kilometers long, and the tanker Flora 1 was quickly identified as a vessel of interest due to its location and unclear circumstances. RelatedNews Qatar sends its first LNG shipment through Hormuz since war started Three tankers exit Hormuz as Iran-US negotiations collapse again var jnews_module_21369459_0_6a01de7a24510 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21369459","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"1731,1737,3803,2120,239","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_im