Daily Maritime Sanctions Brief: 4 October 2026

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Source: Strait Up Maritime Daily Brief (original analysis of public sanctions list data)
Original publication date: Sunday, October 4, 2026
Vessel IMO numbers cited: 23
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As of October 4, 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.

A total of 25 sanctioned vessels were identified at various maritime chokepoints over the last 24 hours. In the Hormuz Strait, five vessels were recorded: ABBA (IMO 9051624, Iran flag, General Cargo), SOMERSET (IMO 9235737, CK flag, Crude Oil Tanker), CASINOVA (IMO 9280366, BB flag, Crude Oil Tanker), WORLD PROGRESS (IMO 9300996, CK flag, Chemical/Products Tanker), and TRIMA (IMO 9252072, CK flag, Chemical/Products Tanker). The Turkish chokepoint saw seven vessels, including HENG TAI (IMO 9419448, PA flag, Crude Oil Tanker), Hai II (IMO 9259599, LR flag, Crude Oil Tanker), HS Everett (IMO 9410870, LR flag, Crude Oil Tanker), KRISHNA 1 (IMO 9271585, PA flag, Crude Oil Tanker), and Onyx (IMO 9236640, GA flag, Crude/Oil Products Tanker).

Other chokepoint activity included three vessels in the Korea Strait: BORACAY (IMO 9332810, unknown flag, unknown), HS Esberg (IMO 9410894, LR flag, Products Tanker), and PACIFICOS (IMO 9288930, unknown flag, unknown). The Malacca Strait recorded three vessels: VICTORY ARI (IMO 9290919, AG flag, Chemical/Oil Tanker), LPG OM (IMO 9160475, PW flag, LPG Tanker), and ETERNAL PEACE (IMO 9259745, PA flag, Crude Oil Tanker). Additionally, one vessel was noted at the Bab el Mandeb (Sensus, IMO 9296585, LR flag, Products Tanker), two at the Suez (JI SHUN, IMO 9384447, unknown flag, unknown; and Lady Mariia, IMO 9220641, RU flag, Roll-on Roll-off), and one each at the approach to the North Sea South (Samsun, IMO 9436006, PA flag, Crude Oil Tanker), the English Channel (Samsun, IMO 9436006, PA flag, Crude Oil Tanker), Gibraltar (Lady D, IMO 9349289, RU flag, General Cargo), and the Sicily Channel (Inzhener Veshnyakov, IMO 8502107, RU flag, General Cargo).

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

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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