The International Maritime Organization’s highlighted-incidents board, as at Wednesday, 14 October, now prints 113 confirmed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East, with 24 confirmed seafarer fatalities. Monday’s dedicated board piece on this desk sat at 104. The fatality line has not moved. What moved is the named list. IMO now prints AL MAQAM, IMO 9732577, dated 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution, and ANGOLA PROSPERITY, IMO 9896414, dated 11 October, 8 nautical miles from the coast of Oman, damaged, no pollution. Those two lines convert hulls that had sat on this desk as unused industry matching into an official IMO print. They do not convert them into a UKMTO or JMIC naming.
The same 14 October snapshot adds DP WORLD KAVERI, IMO 9363429, 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer injured; KITION M, IMO 9321160, 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, limited pollution reported; EVER VICT, IMO 9266774, 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution, two seafarers injured; PETRO DOLPHIN, IMO 1072294, 11 October, Sohar Anchorage, Gulf of Oman, two seafarers missing; AL SAADIYAT, IMO 9760598, 13 October, 1 nautical mile from the coast of Oman, damaged, no pollution; GFS GISELLE, IMO 9704661, 13 October, 6 nautical miles from the coast of Oman, damaged, no pollution; and GFS PRIDE, IMO 9349045, 13 October, Strait of Hormuz, sunk, no pollution. CAPE DAO, IMO 9219020, already on the board from 23 September, is now printed as damaged, no pollution, one seafarer fatality, sunk. The count is an IMO product. It is not a UKMTO warning, not a JMIC Update 105, and not a rewrite of Monday’s 104-count file.
What the 14 October board actually adds
Monday’s page was 104 confirmed incidents, 24 dead, with VALTHERA, GEM NO. 2 and ACERS as the operational namings. Wednesday’s page is 113. Nine named rows, or nine net additions against that snapshot, sit on 11 October and 13 October plus the Cape Dao status change. Update 104 remains the last numbered public JMIC note, JMIC# 001 26, ICOD 111500 UTC 11 October, Hormuz SEVERE, 140 incidents since 1 March on the JMIC counter. That is a different 140 from IMO’s 113. Masters who brief Wednesday as JMIC Update 105, as UKMTO finally naming Al Maqam, or as a completed 11–13 October tape will have misread the instrument.
Hold the clocks on the 11 October cluster. UKMTO’s dedicated Monday products, Warnings 166-26 through 169-26, remain unnamed Attack PDFs: an outbound tanker, an inbound container, an outbound products tanker and an outbound crude, all unknown projectiles, time-late, Strait of Hormuz. Sunday’s dedicated Warning 164-26 remains an unnamed outbound tanker, port-side projectile, 1200 UTC, crew safe, no environmental impact reported at the time of the attack. Sunday’s dedicated Warning 165-26 remains the unnamed Sohar UAV Attack later matched by India as MT Petro Dolphin. IMO has now printed names against that week. It has not printed UKMTO warning numbers against those names. Do not collapse the board into the PDFs.
Al Maqam and Angola Prosperity leave the unused list
AL MAQAM is the first official IMO print on the hull that IRGC-affiliated Tasnim, Seatrade, TradeWinds and Maritime Executive had carried as unused colour against Monday’s unnamed tanker cluster. IMO prints AL MAQAM, IMO 9732577, 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution. It does not print a fire, a tug, a cargo, a heading, a projectile type, a crew line, or a responsible party. It does not print 166-26, 168-26, 169-26 or 171-26. UKMTO still has not named that hull against a numbered product. JMIC Update 104 still does not list it. ADNOC Logistics & Services still had not commented in the earlier primaries. Open-register colour only: Liberia, MMSI 636026818, VLCC, built 2017, about 333 by 60 metres, about 154,139 gross tons and 298,767 deadweight, registered owner Al Maqam Inc on earlier Equasis colour, commercial and ISM manager listed as ADNOC Logistics & Services on that same unused file. VesselFinder’s last public AIS was on the order of 54 days stale. That is tracker colour, not an IMO position. Put the IMO name on the company file. Do not brief a UKMTO PDF that prints the hull. Do not brief a confirmed IRGC naming.
ANGOLA PROSPERITY is the first official IMO print on the hull that Seatrade and Vanguard had matched to Sunday’s unnamed 164-26 CSO outbound. IMO prints ANGOLA PROSPERITY, IMO 9896414, 11 October, 8 nautical miles from the coast of Oman, damaged, no pollution. It does not print a port-side hit, a steering-gear room, a port water tank, a heading, a cargo, or a crew line. It does not print 164-26. India’s Valthera naming remains on a different hull, IMO 9296389, already on Monday’s board as a 10 October Oman-territorial-waters row. Open-register colour only on Angola Prosperity: Liberia VLCC, MMSI 636019738, call sign D5VX6, built 2021, about 333 by 60 metres, about 154,046 gross tons and 299,940 deadweight. VesselFinder’s last public AIS was on the order of 15 days stale, last reported in South East Asia, draught about 11.0 metres. That is tracker colour, not a Basrah cargo finding and not a UKMTO position. Do not force Angola Prosperity onto 164-26. Do not treat Wednesday as UKMTO naming Sunday’s CSO file.
The rest of the 11 October and 13 October rows
DP WORLD KAVERI, IMO 9363429, is a first IMO print: 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer injured. Open-register colour only: India-flag container ship, MMSI 419001812, call sign VTUO, built 2007, about 199 by 32 metres, about 27,104 gross tons and 33,704 deadweight. Do not force it onto Warning 167-26, which remains an unnamed inbound container with no crew or damage line on the PDF. KITION M, IMO 9321160, is a first IMO print: 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, limited pollution reported. That is one of the few pollution lines on the current board. Open-register colour only: Panama oil-products tanker, MMSI 352190000, call sign HPIX, built 2006, about 228 by 32 metres, about 40,964 gross tons and 74,995 deadweight. Riviera’s matching of Kition M to Warning 168-26 remains industry colour. IMO does not print that number. EVER VICT, IMO 9266774, is a first IMO print: 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution, two seafarers injured. Open-register colour only: Bahamas crude-oil tanker, built 2005, about 228.5 by 32.2 metres, about 39,307 gross tons and 70,426 deadweight. Riviera’s matching to Warning 169-26 remains industry colour.
PETRO DOLPHIN, IMO 1072294, 11 October, Sohar Anchorage, two seafarers missing, is wrap on Sunday’s dedicated Warning 165-26 file, which India already named. Stay with the official 11 Indian / 9 rescued / 2 missing count unless the flag or UKMTO revises it. The IMO row does not print a UAV, a flag dispute, or a crew nationality. GFS Pride and GFS Giselle are wrap on today’s dedicated Singapore flag-state piece: Pride sunk, 21 crew evacuated, no injuries; Giselle hull damage, own propulsion to a safe anchorage, 22 crew safe. IMO prints Pride as sunk, no pollution, and Giselle as damaged, 6 nautical miles from the coast of Oman, no pollution. It does not print the MPA crew numbers or NAVAREA IX 373/26. AL SAADIYAT, IMO 9760598, is a first IMO print: 13 October, 1 nautical mile from the coast of Oman, damaged, no pollution. Open-register colour only: Marshall Islands container ship, MMSI 538012603, call sign V7B3091, built 2016, about 170 by 28 metres, about 23,503 deadweight. Do not assign it to Warning 172-26 or 173-26. Those dedicated Wednesday products remain unnamed 50,000-tonne inbound and 19,000-tonne outbound container Attacks that continued on passage.
CAPE DAO is a status change, not a new date. IMO already had the Antigua and Barbuda bulk carrier, IMO 9219020, at 15 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, Oman, dated 23 September, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer fatality. Wednesday’s board adds Sunk. NAVAREA IX 370/26, issued 131520 UTC 13 October, reports MV Cape Dao, earlier involved in a security incident on 23 September, sinking in 24-44.2N 056-47.7E, Gulf of Oman, mariners cautioned, charts BA 2837, 2851 and Oman OM1216. Reuters/gCaptain on 14 October said the remaining crew had been evacuated after the September strike and that UAE-based manager Peonies Shipmanagement FZE could not be immediately reached. Open-register colour only: Antigua and Barbuda, MMSI 305017400, call sign V2C2017, built 2002, about 289 by 45 metres, about 84,448 gross tons and 170,089 deadweight. The delayed sink is a wreck file weeks after the hit, not a new 13 October Attack. Do not merge it with GFS Pride.
Operational implications
For CSOs, Wednesday is the first IMO sheet that names both a Liberia VLCC previously held as unused IRGC-video colour and a Liberia VLCC previously held as unused 164-26 matching. Charterers, P&I and war-risk underwriters who have been holding AL MAQAM or ANGOLA PROSPERITY as security-house matches can now point to the IMO board. They still cannot point to a UKMTO PDF that prints those names. They still cannot point to Update 105. The board also now carries a limited-pollution line on Kition M, injury lines on DP World Kaveri and Ever Vict, the Sohar missing-seafarer line on Petro Dolphin, a 13 October container sink, and a delayed bulk-carrier wreck. That is a wider cargo-class picture than Monday’s tanker-heavy 104.
JMIC Update 104’s cut-off is 111500 UTC 11 October. The 13 October GFS and Al Saadiyat rows, Cape Dao’s sink, and the later UKMTO 170-26 through 173-26 products sit after that ICOD. A master’s pack that replaces Update 104 with the IMO 113-count, or that treats 113 as a UKMTO count, will brief the wrong instrument. Hormuz remains SEVERE on the last numbered JMIC note. NAVAREA IX 363/26, previously in force to 142359 UTC 14 October as a fishermen-warning-shots assessment in Update 104, has reached its printed expiry. NAVAREA IX 370/26 and 373/26 are the current wreck cautions. Do not recast Wednesday as a Hormuz reopen, a UKMTO-named Monday tape, a JMIC downgrade, a completed pollution survey, or a rewrite of Warning 164-26, 165-26, 166-26 through 169-26, or 170-26 through 173-26.
What Operators Should Note
- Log the 14 October IMO board, not a UKMTO naming. 113 confirmed incidents. 24 seafarers dead, unchanged from Monday. Replace the 12 October 104-count snapshot in the master’s pack. Do not replace JMIC Update 104. ICOD remains 111500 UTC 11 October. Hormuz remains SEVERE. IMO’s 113 is not JMIC’s 140.
- Treat AL MAQAM as an IMO print, not as a UKMTO hull. IMO 9732577, 11 October, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution. Dedicated Warnings 166-26 through 169-26 and 171-26 remain unnamed. Update 104 does not list the hull. Open particulars: Liberia VLCC, about 333 × 60 m, about 298,767 dwt. Put the IMO name on the company file. Do not brief a confirmed IRGC naming or a fire line that IMO did not print.
- Treat ANGOLA PROSPERITY as an IMO print, not as a 164-26 naming. IMO 9896414, 11 October, 8 NM from the coast of Oman, damaged, no pollution. Sunday’s dedicated Warning 164-26 remains an unnamed CSO outbound, port-side projectile, crew safe, no environmental impact at warning time. Open particulars: Liberia VLCC, about 333 × 60 m, about 299,940 dwt. India’s Valthera naming stays on IMO 9296389.
- Pick up the new casualty and pollution lines. DP WORLD KAVERI, IMO 9363429, one seafarer injured. EVER VICT, IMO 9266774, two seafarers injured. KITION M, IMO 9321160, limited pollution reported — one of the few pollution lines on the board. PETRO DOLPHIN remains two missing at Sohar; stay with the official 11/9/2 Indian count. Do not force Kaveri, Kition M or Ever Vict onto 167-26, 168-26 or 169-26.
- Split the 13 October container rows from Wednesday’s unnamed UKMTO PDFs. GFS Pride sunk and GFS Giselle damaged are the dedicated Singapore flag-state file, with NAVAREA IX 373/26 at 26-16.8N 056-08.6E. AL SAADIYAT, IMO 9760598, 1 NM from Oman, damaged, no pollution, is a first IMO print on a Marshall Islands feeder. Warning 172-26 and 173-26 remain unnamed and continued on passage. Do not assign the IMO names to those PDFs.
- Treat CAPE DAO as a delayed wreck, not a new Attack. IMO now prints Sunk on the 23 September row, one seafarer fatality, no pollution. NAVAREA IX 370/26: 24-44.2N 056-47.7E, Gulf of Oman, mariners cautioned. Open particulars: Antigua and Barbuda bulk carrier, IMO 9219020, about 289 × 45 m, about 170,089 dwt. Do not merge with GFS Pride. NAVAREA IX 363/26 has reached its 142359 UTC 14 October expiry; use 370/26 and 373/26 as the current wreck cautions.
Regulas Shipping will keep lining the IMO highlighted-incidents board against UKMTO numbered products and JMIC Update 104 so operators can treat Wednesday’s 113-count and the new Al Maqam and Angola Prosperity prints as an IMO instrument, not as a UKMTO naming or a Hormuz reopen.
