The International Maritime Organization’s highlighted-incidents board, as at Tuesday, 27 October, now prints 121 confirmed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East, with 24 confirmed seafarer fatalities. Thursday’s dedicated board piece on this desk sat at 120 as at 22 October. The fatality line has not moved. What moved is the count by one, and one new named row at the top of the table. IMO now prints LEONORA KOSAN, IMO 9390953, dated 23 October, 6 nautical miles northeast of Limah, Oman, damaged, no pollution. That is the first official IMO print on a Limah LPG geometry that UKMTO left unnamed on Warning 181-26 and that JMIC left unnamed on Update 108.
The count is an IMO product. It is not a UKMTO warning, not a JMIC Update 109, and not a rewrite of the dedicated 181-26 Limah PDF, the dedicated 182-26 outbound-Hormuz PDF, Thursday’s 120-count piece, or this morning’s dedicated 183-26 Al-Faw fire. UKMTO’s recent-incidents board still ends at Warning 183-26. Update 108 remains the last numbered public JMIC note, JMIC# 001 26, ICOD 251300 UTC 25 October, Hormuz SEVERE, Arabian Gulf SUBSTANTIAL, 156 incidents since 1 March on the JMIC counter. That is a different 156 from IMO’s 121. Masters who brief Tuesday as Update 109, as UKMTO finally printing Leonora Kosan on the original PDFs, or as a completed 22–26 October tape will have misread the instrument.
What the 27 October board actually adds
Thursday’s page was 120 confirmed incidents, 24 dead, with SOYIA and CHLOE (MIVERVA V) as the operational namings of that snapshot and with 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’s page is 121. The increment is one confirmed incident. One new named row sits at the top of the table. That arithmetic is cleaner than the 114-to-119 jump, which added five confirmed incidents and printed only three new names. CHLOE later filled one of those two unnamed increment slots. One increment from that +5 is still unnamed on this public sheet. Do not invent it. Do not treat the +1 as a silent conversion of 176-26. That Mukalla LNG file is still not named on this board. Do not treat the +1 as a 182-26 PDF naming or as a 183-26 conversion. Those UKMTO products remain unnamed, and 183-26 remains a Suspicious Activity fire, not an IMO confirmed-incident row.
The new row is LEONORA KOSAN, IMO 9390953, 23 October, 6 NM northeast of Limah, Oman, damaged, no pollution. That range sits one nautical mile inside dedicated Warning 181-26: unnamed tanker Attack, incident date 22 October 2026, 1715 UTC, source Company Security Officer, time-late report, tanker hit by an unknown projectile 7 NM northeast of Limah whilst transiting outbound in the Strait of Hormuz, tanker continued voyage to the next port of call, transit with caution, authorities investigating. Sunday’s dedicated Update 108 is the first JMIC type-and-status on that number: name withheld UFN, LPG tanker, unknown projectile about 7 NM northeast of Limah, outbound Hormuz, 22 October; no casualties, no environmental impact; vessel now at anchor off Khor Fakkan. IMO does not print 181-26, a Company Security Officer line, 1715 UTC, an unknown projectile, a continued-voyage line, a Khor Fakkan anchorage or “time-late.” It prints Leonora Kosan, 9390953, 23 October, 6 NM northeast of Limah, damaged, no pollution. That is a tighter hull finding than either the PDF or Update 108, and it matches both on pollution. It is not a completed class survey.
Hold the clocks. UKMTO and JMIC date the Limah LPG geometry to 22 October. IMO dates Leonora Kosan to 23 October. The offsets are 7 NM and 6 NM northeast of Limah. That is the same Al Dasma pattern this desk already used on the 20–21 October Bukha file: one hull can carry two official clocks. It is not proof that IMO has named 181-26 on the PDF. The PDF has not been revised. Update 108 has not been revised. Do not collapse Monday’s dedicated Warning 182-26 onto this row because both sit on a 23 October date. 182-26 remains an unnamed outbound-Hormuz Attack, 0839 UTC, tanker disabled by an unknown projectile, crew reported safe, no damage assessment or environmental-impact report, no Limah offset and no type line. IMO printed neither “disabled,” 0839 UTC, nor Strait of Hormuz without a Limah range. Do not invent which UKMTO number is this hull.
The rest of Thursday’s sheet is still there. 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, no pollution — that is still not a ministry naming of Friday’s Umm Al Quwain spill. Cameroon Prosperity is still printed with the eight-digit IMO typo 93151598; the working seven-digit number on earlier dedicated files is 9315159. The fatality total is still 24. None of those rows is the 121-count move. The move is the one-incident increment and the Leonora Kosan print at the top.
One other sheet change sits as wrap, not as a dedicated rewrite. CAPE DAO, IMO 9219020, 23 September, 15 NM northeast of Khasab, still carries one seafarer fatality and “no pollution.” Thursday’s 120-count snapshot still printed that hull as damaged and partially sunk. Tuesday’s 121-count snapshot prints “Sunk.” Saturday’s dedicated NAVAREA IX 403/26 already recorded CAPE DAO as REPORTED SUNK at 24-36.410N 057-13.215E, about 35 NM east of Sohar, cancelling 380/26. IMO has now closed the “partially sunk” wording on the public board. That is a status alignment with the hydrographic product, not a second Cape Dao attack and not a fatality-count move. Leave Saturday’s 403/26 piece as the wreck file.
Leonora Kosan is a Limah IMO print, not a PDF naming
Warning 181-26 remains an unnamed PDF. Update 108 remains an unnamed LPG at Khor Fakkan. Tuesday is the first official IMO print on that Limah geometry. UKMTO printed neither a ship name, an IMO number, a flag, a cargo grade, a projectile type, a fire, a crew line, a pollution line nor an attacker. JMIC printed the type as LPG tanker and the status as at anchor off Khor Fakkan, and still withheld the name. IMO prints Leonora Kosan, 9390953, damaged, no pollution, 6 NM northeast of Limah, on a 23 October date. Hold the official lines separately. A DPA who briefs Update 108’s “no casualties and no environmental impact” as a completed survey will under-read IMO’s “damaged.” A DPA who briefs IMO’s “damaged” as a UKMTO revision of 181-26, or as a 182-26 naming, will over-read both PDFs. Neither PDF has been revised.
Open-register colour only, not an IMO flag or cargo print: Singapore-flag LPG tanker, MMSI 563146100, call sign 9V7458, built 2009, about 115 metres, 7,465 gross tons, 8,545 deadweight. Register extracts name BW EPIC KOSAN VESSELS PTE LTD as registered owner, BW Epic Kosan, Denmark as commercial manager, and BW Epic Kosan Maritime Pte Ltd as ISM manager. That is a small gas carrier, not a VLCC and not a KOTC hull. It fits Update 108’s LPG type line. It does not fit a products-tanker or crude-VLCC briefing. Distinct from dedicated SOYIA, IMO 9263916, Liberia products tanker, 47,094 dwt, on the 20 October Al Faw row. Distinct from dedicated AL DASMA, IMO 9653446, Kuwait-flag, 109,719 dwt, on the 20 October Strait row. Distinct from dedicated GHANA PROSPERITY, IMO 9732541, still on Saturday’s 404/26 Musandam anchorage file and still unnamed against any UKMTO warning number.
Industry AIS colour, not an IMO or UKMTO print: destination Khor Fakkan, last reported speed near idle, last port Khor Fakkan anchorage on 24 October. Hormuz-tracking colour puts an outbound Gulf crossing on 22 October. That colour sits beside Update 108’s “now at anchor off Khor Fakkan” line. It is not a UKMTO naming. It is not a completed refuge finding. Do not write a private AIS plot onto the IMO row. Do not write it onto 181-26 or 182-26.
Ambrey’s 23 October 07:35 Oman territorial-waters merchant-vessel projectile colour remains a different clock. Do not collapse it onto Leonora Kosan as a territorial-sea confirmation. Do not collapse it onto 182-26 as a naming. Iranian state-television colour on the seven-tanker overnight claim remains unused as a dedicated file; it is not this board and not an increment past 121.
Operational implications
For CSOs, Tuesday is the first IMO sheet that names the Limah LPG that UKMTO and JMIC left unnamed. Charterers, P&I and war-risk underwriters who have been holding 181-26 as an unnamed Attack and Update 108 as an unnamed LPG at Khor Fakkan can now point to Leonora Kosan on the IMO board. They still cannot point to a UKMTO PDF that prints that name. They still cannot point to Update 109. The board’s pollution line is “no pollution.” That matches Update 108 and is tighter than 181-26, which was silent on pollution, and tighter than 182-26, which had no environmental-impact report. IMO printed neither a refuge port, a return-to-passage, a wreck, a NAVAREA number, a crew casualty nor an attacker against this hull.
The 121-count is also a reminder of what IMO has not yet taken. Warning 183-26 remains this morning’s dedicated unnamed Suspicious Activity fire 63 NM southeast of Al-Faw, crew, damage and pollution unknown. Warning 182-26 remains Monday’s dedicated unnamed outbound-Hormuz disablement. Warning 176-26 remains an unnamed LNG tanker Attack off Al Mukalla. Warning 174-26 remains an unnamed PDF even though ST3 is on the board against the 68 NM Al Jubail geometry. Warning 179-26 remains an unnamed PDF even though AL DASMA is on the board against the 20 October Strait geometry. One increment from the 114-to-119 jump is still unnamed. A master’s pack that treats 121 as “the weekend and Monday tape is now official” will over-read the board. A pack that leaves Leonora Kosan off the IMO sheet because the original UKMTO PDFs were unnamed will under-read it.
Replace the 22 October 120-count snapshot. Do not replace Update 108. ICOD remains 251300 UTC 25 October. Hormuz remains SEVERE. The Arabian Gulf remains SUBSTANTIAL. Leonora Kosan sits after Thursday’s 120-count cut-off and after Update 108’s 22 October Limah assignment, on a 23 October IMO date. IMO’s 121 is not JMIC’s 156. Do not recast 27 October as Update 109, a 181-26 or 182-26 PDF naming, a 176-26 or 183-26 conversion, a fatality-count move, a rewrite of Thursday’s 120-count, a rewrite of this morning’s 183-26 or Paris MoU pieces, or a Hormuz reopen.
What Operators Should Note
- Log the 27 October IMO board, not a UKMTO naming. 121 confirmed incidents as at 27 October. 24 seafarers dead, unchanged from Thursday’s 120-count. Replace the 22 October snapshot in the master’s pack. Do not replace JMIC Update 108. ICOD remains 251300 UTC 25 October. Hormuz remains SEVERE. Arabian Gulf remains SUBSTANTIAL. IMO’s 121 is not JMIC’s 156. There is no Update 109. UKMTO still ends at 183-26.
- Treat Leonora Kosan as an IMO print, not as a 181-26 or 182-26 PDF naming. IMO 9390953, 23 October, 6 NM northeast of Limah, damaged, no pollution. Dedicated Warning 181-26 remains an unnamed CSO Attack, 22 October 1715 UTC, 7 NM northeast of Limah, continued voyage. Update 108 remains an unnamed LPG at Khor Fakkan on that number. Dedicated Warning 182-26 remains an unnamed outbound-Hormuz disablement, 23 October 0839 UTC, no Limah offset. Hold the clocks. Do not invent which UKMTO number is this hull.
- Keep the type and size on the colour line, not on the board. Open-register colour only: Singapore, LPG tanker, about 115 m, 7,465 gt, 8,545 dwt, call sign 9V7458, MMSI 563146100. That matches Update 108’s LPG type. It is not Soyia, not Al Dasma, and not Ghana Prosperity. AIS destination Khor Fakkan is industry colour beside Update 108’s anchorage line, not a UKMTO naming.
- Leave 183-26, 182-26 and 176-26 off this sheet, and leave one 114-to-119 increment unnamed. 183-26 remains this morning’s dedicated Third Party fire 63 NM southeast of Al-Faw. 182-26 remains Monday’s dedicated unnamed disablement. 176-26 remains the dedicated Mukalla LNG skiff. 174-26 remains an unnamed PDF; ST3 stays the dedicated ministry and 114-count naming. Do not invent the still-unnamed increment from the +5.
- Note Cape Dao’s board wording as wrap, not as a new wreck file. The 121-count now prints CAPE DAO as sunk, aligning with Saturday’s dedicated NAVAREA IX 403/26 REPORTED SUNK at 24-36.410N 057-13.215E. Thursday’s 120-count still said partially sunk. Fatality line unchanged. GEM NO. 2 remains “no pollution.” Cameroon Prosperity still carries 93151598 on the board; working number 9315159.
- Do not recast Tuesday as Update 109 or as a completed Monday tape. 182-26 and 183-26 sit after Update 108’s 251300 UTC 25 October cut-off and are not on that note. They are not on this IMO sheet. Do not recast 121 as a Hormuz reopen, a 181-26 PDF revision, or a pollution survey.
Regulas Shipping will keep lining the IMO highlighted-incidents board against UKMTO numbered products and JMIC Update 108 so operators can treat Tuesday’s 121-count and the new Leonora Kosan print as an IMO instrument, not as a UKMTO naming or a Hormuz reopen.
