Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief · Saturday, August 8, 2026
AI-GENERATED ANALYSIS
Daily Maritime Sanctions Brief — 8 August 2026
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Key facts
Source:Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief (UK HM Treasury, Open Government Licence v3.0)
The total number of active sanctioned vessels has reached 2,952. 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 chokepoints. The Suez chokepoint saw the highest concentration with five vessels: Sensus (IMO 9296585, Liberia flag), GEFEST (IMO 9319882, unknown flag), HS Everett (IMO 9410870, Liberia flag), Mona (IMO 9314818, Liberia flag), and Orient Harmony (IMO 9620633, Panama flag). Other chokepoint activity included one vessel at Hormuz, the ABBA (IMO 9051624, Iran flag), and one vessel at the Cape, the MULAN (IMO 9864837, Palau flag).
Additional sanctioned vessels were tracked at various ports and locations. Notable sightings include the Valentin Emirov (IMO 8866591, Russia flag) at port_AZBAK, the VLADIMIR MONOMAKH (IMO 9842176, Russia flag) at port_RUNJK, and the Vladimir Latyshev (IMO 9921996, Russia flag) at both nw_europe and port_FRSML. Other vessels identified include the DAYLAM (IMO 9218466, Iran flag) in med_west, the Onyx (IMO 9236640, Georgia flag) in the turkish chokepoint, and the WEI FENG (IMO 9388754, Panama 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. View live diff data · Report a correction
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