Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief · Tuesday, September 29, 2026
AI-GENERATED ANALYSIS
Daily Maritime Sanctions Brief: 29 September 2026
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Key facts
Source:Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief (original analysis of public sanctions list data)
A total of 25 sanctioned vessels were identified at various maritime chokepoints over the last 24 hours. The running total of active sanctioned vessels currently stands at 2,952. There were no new designations, delistings, or changes to vessel flags, names, or operators reported in the last 24-hour period.
Activity was noted at several key chokepoints. The Turkish straits saw the highest concentration with 8 vessels, including the HENG TAI (IMO 9419448, Panama flag), SI HE (IMO 9378618, Panama flag), Hai II (IMO 9259599, Liberia flag), HS Everett (IMO 9410870, Liberia flag), and KRISHNA 1 (IMO 9271585, Panama flag). The approach to the North Sea South contained 3 vessels: Valour (IMO 9832559, Panama flag), Baltic Leader (IMO 9220639, Russia flag), and Sparta (IMO 9268710, Russia flag).
Other monitored areas included the Suez area with 3 vessels (Mona, Lady Mariia, and Inzhener Trubin), the Malacca Strait with 3 vessels (Sivas, Salty Wolf, and Venture), and the approach to the Skagerrak with 2 vessels (ABBA and Okeansky Prospect). Additionally, 2 vessels were identified near Gibraltar (Samsun and Anastasiia), 2 in the English Channel (Baltic Leader and Sparta), 1 in the Danish Straits (ABBA), and 1 in the Bab el Mandeb (Sensus).
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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