Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief · Tuesday, July 14, 2026
AI-GENERATED ANALYSIS
Daily Maritime Sanctions Brief — 14 July 2026
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Key facts
Source:Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief (UK HM Treasury, Open Government Licence v3.0)
As of July 14, 2026, the running total of active sanctioned vessels stands at 2,952. There were no new vessel designations or delistings recorded in the last 24 hours, and no changes to vessel flags, names, or operators were reported.
In the last 24 hours, 25 sanctioned vessels were identified at various maritime chokepoints and ports. Activity at the Suez chokepoint included three vessels: NS BURGAS (IMO 9411020, GA flag), NS LION (IMO 9339313, GA flag), and Serenade (IMO 9318541, BB flag). The Red Sea saw one vessel, the Lady R (IMO 9161003, RU flag). One vessel, ABBA (IMO 9051624, IR flag), was noted at the Hormuz chokepoint.
Other notable vessel locations included the Malacca chokepoint with NS Creation (IMO 9312896, GA flag) and the Cape with North Mountain (IMO 9953511, PA flag). Additional sanctioned vessels were tracked at various ports, including the Mekhanik Makarin (IMO 8904379, RU flag) and Valentin Emirov (IMO 8866591, RU flag). The vessel POLA ALEXIA (IMO 9903853) was recorded at port_IRAMP with an unknown flag.
Source: live sanctions list data aggregated from the publishing government authorities cited above. Verify every listing against the issuing authority's official notice before relying on it for compliance.
Source:Strait Up Maritime sanctions data (live) This is an original article generated by Strait Up Maritime from publicly available sanctions list data. Underlying designations are published by: U.S. Treasury OFAC (SDN list, public domain), UK OFSI (consolidated list, Open Government Licence v3.0), European Council (CFSP regulations, EU re-use policy 2011/833/EU), United Nations Security Council (1267/1718/1591 lists, public domain), Australian DFAT (consolidated list, Commonwealth CC-BY 4.0), Global Affairs Canada (SEMA list, Canada OGL), Japan Ministry of Finance, Swiss SECO, and New Zealand DPMC. Verify every listing against the cited authority's official notice before relying on it for compliance. View live diff data · Report a correction
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