Daily Maritime Sanctions Brief — 18 July 2026

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Source: Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief (UK HM Treasury, Open Government Licence v3.0)
Original publication date: Saturday, July 18, 2026
Vessel IMO numbers cited: 25
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As of July 18, 2026, there are 2,952 active sanctioned vessels in total. In the last 24 hours, there were no new vessel designations, no delistings, and no changes to vessel flags, names, or operators recorded.

During the last 24 hours, 25 sanctioned vessels were identified at various maritime chokepoints. In the Suez region, four vessels were tracked: the Lady R (IMO 9161003, Russian flag), NS Bravo (IMO 9412359, GA flag), Sensus (IMO 9296585, LR flag), and Hai II (IMO 9259599, LR flag). The Mediterranean West saw two vessels: the DAYLAM (IMO 9218466, IR flag) and the ENISEY (IMO 9

Northwest Europe recorded two vessels, the Vladimir Latyshev (IMO 9921996, Russian flag) and the GEORGY MASLOV (IMO 9610793, GA flag). Other notable sightings include the NS Century (IMO 9306782, LR flag) at several ports including port_BHSIT, port_MYCEN, port_MYPGG, port_MYPGU, and port_MYTLA, as well as the SAKHALIN ISLAND (IMO 9249128, PA flag) at the Malacca chokepoint.

Additional vessels identified at specific ports include the VLADIMIR MONOMAKH (IMO 9842176, Russian flag) and Krymsk (IMO 9270529, GA flag) at port_RUNJK, and the Lady R (IMO 9161003, Russian flag) at port_EGADA. The BORACAY (IMO 9332810, unknown flag) was noted at ports KOREA, port_CNQID, and port_KRPUS. Other vessels present at ports include the Proxima (IMO 9329655, BB flag) at port_RUKOR, WEI FENG (IMO 9388754, PA flag) at port_CNWEI, and Serenade (IMO 9318541, BB flag) at port_EGPSD.

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.
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