Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief · Thursday, July 23, 2026
AI-GENERATED ANALYSIS
Daily Maritime Sanctions Brief — 23 July 2026
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Key facts
Source:Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief (UK HM Treasury, Open Government Licence v3.0)
There are currently 2,952 active sanctioned vessels in total. In the last 24 hours, there were no new vessel designations and no delistings. There were also no recorded changes to vessel flags, names, or operators during this period.
A total of 25 sanctioned vessels were identified at various chokepoints in the last 24 hours. In the Mediterranean West, three crude oil tankers were recorded: SALINA (IMO 9357377, Iran flag), NS COLUMBUS (IMO 9312884, Gabon flag), and NS Bravo (IMO 9412359, Gabon flag). Northwest Europe saw three vessels: Nordstraum (IMO 903ument6284, unknown flag), Vladimir Latyshev (IMO 9921996, Russia flag), and GEORGY MASLOV (IMO 9610793, Gabon flag). The Suez chokepoint included two vessels: Lady R (IMO 9161003, Russia flag) and NS Pride (IMO 9322956, Gabon flag).
Other monitored locations included the Malacca chokepoint, where the RIEVERIA I (IMO 9286229, Sierra Leone flag) was identified. Additional vessel activity was noted at port_AZBAK with Valentin Emirov (IMO 8866591, Russia flag), port_RUKOR with Proxima (IMO 9329655, Barbados flag), and port_CNWEI with WEI FENG (IMO 9388754, Panama flag). The vessel Valour (IMO 9832559, Panama flag) was also recorded at port_RUPRI.
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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