Daily Maritime Sanctions Brief — 22 July 2026

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Source: Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief (UK HM Treasury, Open Government Licence v3.0)
Original publication date: Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Vessel IMO numbers cited: 25
Original announcement: Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief press page

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As of July 22, 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.

A total of 25 sanctioned vessels were identified at various chokepoints over the last 24 hours. In Northwest Europe, four vessels were recorded: the Nordstraum (IMO 9036284, flag unknown), the Vladimir Latyshev (IMO 9921996, Russian flag), the GEORGY MASLOV (IMO 9610793, GA flag), and the Ariadne (IMO 9397547, BB flag). The Western Mediterranean saw three vessels: the HAPPINESS (IMO 9212905, Iranian flag), the NS COLUMBUS (IMO 9312884, GA flag), and the NS Bravo (IMO 9412359, GA flag). One vessel, the RIEVERIA I (IMO 9286229, SM flag), was noted at the Malacca chokepoint. Two vessels were identified at the Suez chokepoint: the Lady R (IMO 9161003, Russian flag) and the NS Pride (IMO 9322956, GA flag).

Additional sanctioned vessels were tracked at various ports and locations. These include the Mekhanik Makarin (IMO 8904379, Russian flag) at port RUKDT, the Gasret Aliev (IMO 9083330, Russian flag) at port IRBAZ, and the Valentin Emirov (IMO 8866591, Russian flag) at port AZBAK. At port RUNJK, two vessels were recorded: the VLADIMIR MONOMAKH (IMO 9842176, Russian flag) and the Krymsk (IMO 9270529, GA flag). Other single vessel sightings included the ENISEY (IMO 9079169, Russian flag) at port EGALY and port EGEDK, the NS ANTARCTIC (IMO 9413559, GA flag) in the Red Sea, the NEVSKIY PROSPECT (IMO 9256054, GA flag) in Korea, the Proxima (IMO 9329655, BB flag) at port RUKOR, and the WEI FENG (IMO 9388754, PA flag) at port CNWEI.

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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