Dark Fleet Update — 7 June 2026

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Source: Strait Up Maritime Dark Fleet Watch (UK HM Treasury, Open Government Licence v3.0)
Original publication date: Sunday, June 7, 2026
Original announcement: Strait Up Maritime Dark Fleet Watch press page

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**Dark Fleet Daily Update: June 07, 2026**

During the period of May 31 to June 07, 2026, there were 173 sanctioned vessel transits recorded. This data is based on AIS broadcasts and Strait Up Maritime chokepoint transit detection.

The chokepoint share for sanctioned traffic during this period is unknown.

Several vessels have been identified as AIS-dark for 0 days. These notable vessels include the ROBERTA (Liberia), ARHIMEDA (Cameroon), EASTERN HERO (Palau), PEACE (Cameroon), ELA (Panama), DELLA (Hong Kong), TIYARA (Nicaragua), and FORWARDER (Guyana).

There were 0 sanctioned ship-to-ship (STS) transfers detected during this reporting period.

The running total of sanctioned vessels tracked is unknown.

Source: AIS broadcasts and chokepoint transit detection by Strait Up Maritime; sanctions designations published by the issuing 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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