Daily Maritime Sanctions Brief — 23 August 2026

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Source: Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief (UK HM Treasury, Open Government Licence v3.0)
Original publication date: Sunday, August 23, 2026
Vessel IMO numbers cited: 25
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As of August 23, 2026, there are 2,952 active sanctioned vessels in total. In the last 24 hours, there were no new 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. In Northwest Europe, five vessels were tracked, including the HEDY (IMO 9212888, Iran flag), Vladimir Latyshev (IMO 9921996, Russia flag), Nordstraum (IMO 9036284, unknown flag), UDAYA (IMO 9288746, unknown flag), and GEFEST (IMO 9319892, unknown flag). The Suez region saw three vessels: Valour (IMO 9832559, Panama flag), HS Everett (IMO 9410870, Liberia flag), and Orient Harmony (IMO 9620633, Panama flag). The Red Sea recorded two vessels: Trust (IMO 9382798, Barbados flag) and KRISHNA 1 (IMO 9271585, Panama flag).

Other monitored locations included one vessel each at the following points: the Cape (Pioneer, IMO 9256602, Palau flag), Korea (Khalasi, IMO 9293997, unknown flag), Brazil (NASHA, IMO 9079107, Iran flag), and the Turkish region (SI HE, IMO 9378618, Panama flag). Additional single vessel sightings were noted at port_EGALY (ABBA, IMO 9051624, Iran flag), port_MTMAR (Zeus, IMO 8799619, Malta flag), port_RUBNK (Mekhanik Makarin, IMO 8904379, Russia flag), port_RUKGD (FINVAL, IMO 9272412, Russia flag), port_RUSTY (FINVAL, IMO 9272412, Russia flag), port_FRSML (Vladimir Latyshev, IMO 9921996, Russia flag), port_RUVYG (ALEKSANDR SOKOLOV, IMO 9889198, unknown flag), port_RUKOR (Proxima, IMO 9329655, Barbados flag), port_RUULU (Elegance, IMO 9383950, Panama flag), and port_EGPSD (Orient Harmony, IMO 9620633, Panama flag). One vessel, SAKHALIN ISLAND (IMO 9249128, Panama flag), was also noted in the Western Mediterranean.

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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