The International Maritime Organization’s highlighted-incidents board, as at 2 November, now prints 125 confirmed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East, with 24 confirmed seafarer fatalities. Monday afternoon’s dedicated board piece on this desk sat at 123 as at 2 November, with Louise 1’s 29 October row 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab as the newest named line. The as-at date has not moved. The fatality line has not moved. What moved overnight is the count by two, and two new named rows at the top of the table. IMO now prints AL MAYEDA, IMO 9397298, dated 30 October, 40 nautical miles south of Lavan Island, Iran, damaged, no pollution, and RITI, IMO 9249075, dated 29 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution. Tuesday morning is the first official IMO print of either hull.
The count is an IMO product. It is not a UKMTO warning, not a JMIC Update 111, and not a rewrite of Sunday afternoon’s dedicated Nakilat disclosure, Sunday night’s dedicated Update 110, Friday night’s dedicated NAVAREA IX 420/26, Friday night’s dedicated Warning 188-26, unused Warning 186-26, or last night’s dedicated Warning 193-26 and 425/26. UKMTO’s product board still ends at Warning 193-26. Update 110, JMIC# 001 26, ICOD 011300 UTC 1 November, remains the last numbered public periodic note. That is a different counter from IMO’s 125. Masters who brief Tuesday morning as Update 111, as UKMTO finally printing Al Mayeda or RITI on the original PDFs, as a completed 1–2 November tape, or as a Hormuz reopen will have misread the instrument.
What the 2 November board actually adds
Monday afternoon’s English page was 123 confirmed incidents, 24 dead, as at 2 November, with LOUISE 1 as the operational naming of that snapshot and with GHANA PROSPERITY, LEONORA KOSAN, SOYIA, CHLOE (MIVERVA V), AL DASMA, JIF BARRACUDA, LOYALTY, ST3, GFS PRIDE, GFS GISELLE, AL SAADIYAT, DP WORLD KAVERI, KITION M, EVER VICT, AL MAQAM, ANGOLA PROSPERITY and PETRO DOLPHIN already on the sheet. Tuesday morning’s English page is 125 as at 2 November. The increment is two confirmed incidents. Two new named rows sit at the top of the table, above Monday’s Louise 1 line. That arithmetic is cleaner than the 114-to-119 jump, which added five confirmed incidents and printed only three new names. One increment from that +5 is still unnamed on this public sheet. Do not invent it. Do not treat the +2 as a silent conversion of dedicated 191-26, dedicated 192-26, last night’s dedicated 193-26, last night’s dedicated 425/26 Selat Storm wreck, unused 186-26 as a UKMTO PDF naming, or Arzanah. Those products remain unnamed on this board. Do not treat the +2 as an AZINI, Quba or Contship Jet conversion. Those hulls do not belong on this Middle East table as new Tuesday rows.
The first new row is AL MAYEDA, IMO 9397298, 30 October, 40NM South of Lavan Island, Iran, damaged, no pollution. Friday night’s dedicated Warning 188-26 remains an unnamed vessel Attack, 1800 UTC 30 October, source Master, location footer Lavan Island, Iran: vessel hit by unknown projectile on the port side causing fire onboard; crew reported safe; no reported environmental impact at this time. IMO does not print 188-26, 1800 UTC, “unknown projectile,” “port side,” “fire,” a Master line, a crew-safe line or an attacker. It prints Al Mayeda, 9397298, damaged, no pollution, 40 nautical miles south of Lavan Island, Iran, on a 30 October date. That is a tighter hull finding than the PDF, and it matches the PDF’s 40-nautical-mile south-of-Lavan offset and the PDF’s no-environmental-impact line. It is not a completed class survey. It is not a UKMTO PDF revision.
The second new row is RITI, IMO 9249075, 29 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution. Friday night’s dedicated NAVAREA IX 420/26 remains a named fire-and-anchor: oil tanker RITI reported involved in a security incident causing fire onboard and anchored in 26-24.07N 056-24.72E, approximately 1 nautical mile northwest of Ra’s Tahir, mariners cautioned. Unused Warning 186-26 remains an unnamed CSO Attack, 1600 UTC 29 October, tanker struck by an unknown projectile whilst completing an outbound Hormuz transit, location footer Khasab, Oman. IMO does not print 186-26, 420/26, 1600 UTC, “unknown projectile,” “fire,” “lost propulsion,” “anchored,” 26-24.07N, Ra’s Tahir, a CSO line or an attacker. It prints RITI, 9249075, damaged, no pollution, Strait of Hormuz, on a 29 October date. That is a tighter IMO-number finding than 420/26, and a thinner geometry than 420/26. It is not a completed class survey. It is not a UKMTO PDF revision and not a NAVAREA rewrite.
Hold the clocks. UKMTO dates 188-26 to 30 October 1800 UTC. IMO dates the new Al Mayeda row to 30 October without a time. UKMTO dates unused 186-26 to 29 October 1600 UTC. 420/26 is DTG 300300 UTC 30 October against a 29 October security-incident clock. IMO dates the new RITI row to 29 October without a time. Sunday night’s dedicated Update 110, ICOD 011300 UTC 1 November, already named AL MAYEDA against 188-26 and RITI against 186-26 plus 420/26 as wrap on that note. Those are separate official instruments, not one collapsed Attack. Do not invent which UKMTO number is the 30 October IMO row, and do not invent which UKMTO number is the 29 October RITI row. The 188-26 PDF has not been revised. Unused 186-26 has not been revised. 420/26 has not been moved. Do not collapse Louise 1 onto this increment because all three now sit at the top of the sheet. Louise 1 remains Monday afternoon’s dedicated 123-count print: IMO 9290323, 29 October, 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, damaged, no pollution, against the 187-26 attached-device geometry. Different hull, different method, different dedicated file.
The rest of Monday’s sheet is still there. LOUISE 1 remains 29 October, IMO 9290323, 25NM Northeast of Khasab, Oman, damaged, no pollution. GHANA PROSPERITY remains 23 October, IMO 9732541, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution, with the 3 October Strait row for the same IMO number still lower on the board. LEONORA KOSAN remains 23 October, IMO 9390953, 6 NM northeast of Limah, damaged, no pollution. SOYIA remains 20 October, IMO 9263916, 30 NM southeast of Al Faw, damaged, no pollution. CHLOE (MIVERVA V) remains 19 October, IMO 9315367, 121 NM from the coast of Oman, damaged, no pollution. AL DASMA remains 20 October, IMO 9653446, Strait of Hormuz, second attack, damaged, no pollution, with the 7 September first-attack row still on the board. JIF BARRACUDA remains 18 October, IMO 9345506, northeast of Khor Fakkan, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer injured. LOYALTY remains 16 October, IMO 9182306, 78 NM northeast of Al Jubail, damaged, no pollution. ST3 remains 16 October, IMO 9220964, 68 NM from Al Jubail, damaged, no pollution. GFS PRIDE remains sunk, no pollution. PETRO DOLPHIN remains two seafarers missing at Sohar Anchorage. GEM NO. 2 remains 9 October, IMO 9735373, 13 NM west of Al Jazeera, damaged. Cameroon Prosperity is still printed with the eight-digit IMO typo 93151598; the working seven-digit number on earlier dedicated files is 9315159. CAPE DAO remains 23 September, IMO 9219020, 15 NM northeast of Khasab, sunk, no pollution, one seafarer fatality. The fatality total is still 24. None of those rows is the 125-count move. The move is the two-incident increment and the first Al Mayeda and RITI prints at the top.
Al Mayeda is an IMO print, not an 188-26 PDF naming
Warning 188-26 remains an unnamed PDF. The working primary on that dedicated Friday-night file is still: ATTACK, 30 October 2026, 1800 UTC, source Master, vessel, unknown projectile on the port side causing fire onboard, 40 nautical miles south of Lavan Island, crew reported safe, no reported environmental impact at this time, location footer Lavan Island, Iran. UKMTO printed neither a ship name, an IMO number, a flag, a ship type beyond vessel, a cargo, an attacker, a NUC or tow line, an anchorage nor a latitude/longitude beyond the 40-nautical-mile south-of-Lavan offset. Tuesday morning’s IMO row does not revise that PDF. A DPA who briefs Tuesday morning as “UKMTO has now named 188-26” has over-read a highlighted-incidents table that does not print a warning number.
Sunday afternoon’s dedicated Nakilat / Qatar Stock Exchange disclosure remains the company confirmation: LNG carrier Al Mayeda hit by unidentified objects while transiting the Arabian Gulf on Friday evening 30 October 2026; crew uninjured; no environmental impact; vessel safe, operational, impact being assessed. Nakilat printed neither lat/long, fire, projectile, port side, attacker, keep-clear, disruption nor a corridor closure. Update 110 already named AL MAYEDA against 188-26 as wrap: LNG carrier, Attack, projectiles about 40 nautical miles south of Lavan Island, fire, crew safe; India’s shipping-minister identification. That is a JMIC naming on a periodic note whose ICOD is 011300 UTC 1 November. It is not this IMO board, and it is not an 188-26 PDF revision. IMO’s sheet is tighter on the hull, the IMO number and the pollution line and thinner on the method. It prints “40NM South of Lavan Island, Iran” and “damaged,” not “unidentified objects,” not “fire,” not “LNG carrier,” not “operational,” and not “crew uninjured.” Hold the official lines separately. A DPA who briefs Nakilat’s operational line as a completed IMO survey will over-read the board. A DPA who briefs IMO’s “damaged, no pollution” as a UKMTO revision of 188-26 will over-read the PDF. Neither product has been revised overnight.
Industry colour of the same 30 October clock, held separately: open-register particulars already held on Sunday’s dedicated Nakilat file — IMO 9397298, Q-Max LNG carrier, about 266,000 cubic metres, 2009 Samsung Geoje, Marshall Islands in registers — are not an IMO flag or cargo print. IMO prints Al Mayeda, 9397298, damaged, no pollution. It does not print Q-Max, cubic metres, Marshall Islands, Nakilat or Qatar. Do not promote a company-fleet colour line onto this row. Distinct from dedicated LOUISE 1, IMO 9290323, 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab. Distinct from dedicated RITI on this same increment. Do not fold Al Mayeda, RITI and Louise 1 into one 30 October Attack.
RITI is an IMO print, not an 186-26 PDF naming
Unused Warning 186-26 remains an unnamed PDF. The working primary on that unused Thursday-afternoon file is still: ATTACK, 29 October 2026, 1600 UTC, source CSO, tanker struck by an unknown projectile whilst completing an outbound Hormuz transit, no reported injuries, no environmental impact report, location footer Khasab, Oman, filename 20261029-ukmto_warning-186-26.pdf. UKMTO printed neither a ship name, an IMO number, a flag, a cargo grade, an attacker, a NUC or tow line, an anchorage nor a latitude/longitude beyond Khasab. Tuesday morning’s IMO row does not revise that PDF and does not convert 186-26 into a dedicated file. A DPA who briefs Tuesday morning as “UKMTO has now named 186-26” has over-read a highlighted-incidents table that does not print a warning number.
Friday night’s dedicated 420/26 remains the named hydrographic instrument: OIL TANKER (RITI) reported involved in a security incident causing fire onboard and anchored in 26-24.07N 056-24.72E, approximately 1 nautical mile northwest of Ra’s Tahir, mariners cautioned, charts BA 2851, 2888, 3172 and Oman OM1219, OM302, OM509. Update 110 already named RITI against unused 186-26 and dedicated 420/26 as wrap: tanker, Attack, unknown projectile outbound in the vicinity of Khasab 29 October, small fire extinguished, lost propulsion, crew safe, no environmental impact, anchored about 1 nautical mile northwest of Ra’s Tahir, Royal Navy of Oman identification. IMO’s sheet is tighter on the IMO number and thinner on the plot. It prints “Strait of Hormuz” and “damaged,” not 26-24.07N, not Ra’s Tahir, not “fire,” not “lost propulsion,” and not “Royal Navy of Oman.” Hold the official lines separately. Do not convert IMO’s Strait tag onto 420/26’s 1-nautical-mile northwest-of-Ra’s-Tahir plot as a wreck move. Do not convert 420/26’s fire-and-anchor onto IMO as a completed disablement. Industry colour of the same hull — Panama in registers, about 25 crew evacuated in Oman MSC / Royal Oman Navy wire reprints — remains colour on the dedicated 420/26 file. IMO prints neither flag nor crew.
What this is not
This is not Warning 193-26. Last night’s dedicated UKMTO Attack is a Master report of a vessel 9 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman, struck by an unknown projectile causing a hole on the starboard side at 2020 UTC 1 November, vessel and crew safe, no environmental impact reported. IMO has not taken that clock. Official MSCIO Alert 166/26, retrieved from mscio.eu/alerts/202, 2 November 8:49 p.m. page, remains wrap on dedicated 193-26 — unused as a dedicated file. This is not Warning 192-26, Monday morning’s dedicated tanker Attack, 2347 UTC 1 November, 72 nautical miles east of Ras Al Khafji, two unknown projectiles on the port side. Official MSCIO Alert 165/26, mscio.eu/alerts/201, 2 November 11:45 a.m. page, remains wrap on dedicated 192-26. This is not Warning 191-26, Sunday night’s dedicated Strait of Hormuz Mayday-relay Attack, 1509 UTC 1 November. Official MSCIO Alert 164/26 remains wrap on dedicated 191-26. None of those 1 November numbers sits on the 2 November IMO sheet.
This is not NAVAREA IX 425/26, and it is not a Selat Storm naming. Last night’s dedicated 425/26, 021500 UTC 2 November, is a named hydrographic wreck: tug boat Selat Storm reported involved in a security incident and sunk in 26-22.55N 056-20.47E, approximately 0.6 nautical miles west of Jazirat Um Al Ghanam. IMO has not printed Selat Storm. This is not 417/26. Friday morning’s dedicated MSV Quba wreck remains 26-19.95N 056-16.82E. This is not Sunday morning’s dedicated MSCIO Alert 161/26 AZINI hijack. This is not Update 110’s first JMIC naming of Arzanah against dedicated 189-26. IMO has not printed Arzanah or AZINI. This is not last night’s unused NAVWARN 784/26 drifting tank, and it is not Thursday’s dedicated Contship Jet or Khoryv wrecks. Those Black Sea instruments do not belong on this Middle East table.
This is not Update 111. Update 110 remains the last numbered public periodic note, ICOD 011300 UTC 1 November, 167 incidents since 1 March. Dedicated 191-26, 192-26 and 193-26 sit after that cut-off. This is not an 188-26 PDF revision. This is not an 186-26 PDF naming. This is not a 420/26 rewrite. This is not a fatality-count move. This is not a Hormuz reopen. Independent tracking colour and NCAGS facilitated-transit colour remain on dedicated Update 110 and on earlier dedicated JMIC files; Tuesday morning’s board does not reprint them. The National’s 2 November colour that “at least 125 ships have been attacked” and that 34 incidents were recorded in October is a wire restatement of this IMO count, not a second official board and not an Update 111.
Operational implications
For CSOs, Tuesday morning is the first IMO sheet that prints Al Mayeda and RITI. Charterers, P&I and war-risk underwriters who have been holding 188-26 as an unnamed Lavan projectile Attack, Nakilat as the company confirmation, Update 110 as the first JMIC naming, and 420/26 as the named RITI fire-and-anchor can now point to a 30 October IMO row on IMO 9397298 and a 29 October IMO row on IMO 9249075. They still cannot point to a UKMTO PDF that prints either name. They still cannot point to Update 111. The board’s pollution line on both new rows is “no pollution.” That matches 188-26’s no-environmental-impact line, Nakilat’s no-environmental-impact line, Update 110’s Al Mayeda and RITI rows, unused 186-26’s no-environmental-impact report, and 420/26’s silence on pollution. IMO printed neither a refuge port, a return-to-passage, a wreck, a NAVAREA number, a crew casualty, a fire, a projectile method nor an attacker against either row. A Q-Max LNG carrier and a named tanker that now carry IMO confirmed-incident dates are still survey, next-port, citadel and war-risk problems. “Damaged, no pollution” is not a completed class note and not a cargo-free finding.
The 125-count is also a reminder of what IMO has not yet taken. Warning 193-26 remains last night’s dedicated unnamed Lima Attack. Warning 192-26 remains Monday morning’s dedicated unnamed Arabian Gulf projectile Attack. Warning 191-26 remains Sunday night’s dedicated unnamed Hormuz Mayday-relay Attack. Warning 189-26 remains Friday night’s dedicated unnamed time-late crude-oil-tanker Attack; Arzanah on Update 110 is wrap, not an IMO print. Unused 186-26 remains an unnamed CSO Attack; RITI on 420/26, on Update 110 and now on this IMO sheet is wrap on those earlier files, not a 186-26 PDF naming. Warning 185-26 remains Thursday’s dedicated unnamed fire 9 nautical miles north of Khasab. Selat Storm remains last night’s dedicated 425/26 wreck. AZINI remains Sunday morning’s dedicated MSCIO hijack. Quba remains Friday morning’s dedicated dhow wreck. One increment from the 114-to-119 jump is still unnamed. A master’s pack that treats 125 as “the 1–2 November tape is now official” will over-read the board. A pack that leaves the 30 October Al Mayeda row and the 29 October RITI row off the IMO sheet because 188-26 and 186-26 were unnamed will under-read it.
Replace the Monday afternoon 123-count snapshot. Do not replace Update 110. ICOD remains 011300 UTC 1 November. Do not invent Update 111 because the IMO sheet moved two rows on the same as-at date after that cut-off. IMO’s 125 is not JMIC’s 167-incident tally on Update 110. Louise 1 stays on the sheet as Monday afternoon’s dedicated 29 October print. Ghana Prosperity stays on the sheet as Saturday’s dedicated 23 October print. The 3 October Ghana Prosperity row stays on the sheet as the first confirmed incident against that IMO number. 188-26 stays Friday night’s dedicated unnamed Lavan Attack. 186-26 stays unused as dedicated. 420/26 stays Friday night’s dedicated RITI fire-and-anchor. Do not recast 3 November morning as Update 111, an 188-26 or 186-26 PDF naming, a 191-26 / 192-26 / 193-26 conversion, a fatality-count move, a rewrite of Monday afternoon’s 123-count, a rewrite of last night’s 193-26 or 425/26, or a Hormuz reopen.
What Operators Should Note
- Log the 2 November IMO board at 125, not a UKMTO naming. 125 confirmed incidents as at 2 November. 24 seafarers dead, unchanged from Monday afternoon’s 123-count. Replace the 123 snapshot in the master’s pack. Do not replace JMIC Update 110. ICOD remains 011300 UTC 1 November. IMO’s 125 is not JMIC’s 167. There is no Update 111. UKMTO still ends at 193-26.
- Treat the new Al Mayeda row as an IMO print, not as an 188-26 PDF naming. IMO 9397298, 30 October, 40 nautical miles south of Lavan Island, Iran, damaged, no pollution. Dedicated Warning 188-26 remains an unnamed Master Attack, 30 October 1800 UTC, vessel, unknown projectile on the port side, fire, crew reported safe, 40 nautical miles south of Lavan. Dedicated Nakilat disclosure remains the company confirmation: unidentified objects, crew uninjured, vessel safe and operational. Dedicated Update 110 remains the first JMIC naming of this hull against 188-26. Do not invent which UKMTO number is this hull. Do not invent a fire, an LNG type or a next port on the IMO sheet.
- Treat the new RITI row as an IMO print, not as an 186-26 PDF naming. IMO 9249075, 29 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution. Unused Warning 186-26 remains an unnamed CSO Attack, 29 October 1600 UTC, tanker, outbound Hormuz, Khasab footer. Dedicated 420/26 remains oil tanker RITI, fire, anchored 26-24.07N 056-24.72E, about 1 nautical mile northwest of Ra’s Tahir. Dedicated Update 110 remains the first JMIC naming of this hull against 186-26 and 420/26. Do not invent a fire, a lost-propulsion line or a Ra’s Tahir plot on the IMO sheet. Do not convert 186-26 into a dedicated file because IMO printed the hull.
- Keep type and size on the colour line, not on the board. Open-register colour only for Al Mayeda: Q-Max LNG, about 266,000 cbm, Marshall Islands in registers, Nakilat fleet. Open-register colour only for RITI: Panama in registers, crew-evacuated wire reprints on the 420/26 file. Those extras are not IMO flag, cargo or crew prints. Louise 1 remains Monday’s dedicated 9290323 print, not this increment. Do not promote a sanctions or shadow-fleet colour line onto either row.
- Leave 191-26 through 193-26, Selat Storm, Arzanah, AZINI and Quba off this sheet, and leave one 114-to-119 increment unnamed. 193-26 remains last night’s dedicated 9 NM northeast-of-Lima Attack; MSCIO 166/26 is wrap. 192-26 remains Monday morning’s dedicated 72 NM east-of-Ras-Al-Khafji Attack; MSCIO 165/26 is wrap. 191-26 remains Sunday night’s dedicated Hormuz Mayday-relay Attack; MSCIO 164/26 is wrap. 425/26 remains last night’s dedicated Selat Storm wreck. 189-26 remains Friday night’s dedicated time-late crude-oil-tanker Attack; Arzanah on Update 110 is wrap, not an IMO print. 417/26 remains Friday morning’s dedicated Quba wreck. 161/26 remains Sunday morning’s dedicated AZINI hijack. Do not invent the still-unnamed increment from the +5.
- Hold Louise 1, Ghana Prosperity and the rest of Monday’s sheet. Louise 1 remains 9290323, 29 October, 25 NM northeast of Khasab, damaged, no pollution — Monday afternoon’s dedicated 123-count print, not this increment. Ghana Prosperity remains 9732541, 23 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution, with the 3 October row still on the board. Leonora Kosan remains 9390953, 23 October, 6 NM northeast of Limah. Al Dasma still carries a second-attack row. Cape Dao remains sunk. Petro Dolphin remains two missing at Sohar. Cameroon Prosperity still carries 93151598 on the board; working number 9315159. Fatality line unchanged at 24.
- Do not recast Tuesday morning as Update 111 or as a completed early-November tape. 191-26, 192-26 and 193-26 sit after Update 110’s 011300 UTC 1 November cut-off and are not on this IMO sheet. The as-at date is still 2 November; the count moved on that same dated sheet. Do not recast 125 as a Hormuz reopen, an 188-26 or 186-26 PDF revision, or a pollution survey. Watch a later IMO as-at date, a UKMTO PDF that prints either hull, a 420/26 move of 26-24.07N, or a numbered Update 111 — not a silent conversion of this week’s unnamed Attacks.
Regulas Shipping will keep lining the IMO highlighted-incidents board against UKMTO numbered products, NAVAREA IX 420/26 and JMIC Update 110 so operators can treat Tuesday morning’s 125-count and the new 30 October Al Mayeda and 29 October RITI prints as an IMO instrument, not as a UKMTO naming or a Hormuz reopen.
