The International Maritime Organization’s highlighted-incidents board, as at Monday, 12 October, now prints 104 confirmed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East, with 24 confirmed seafarer fatalities. The count is an IMO product. It is not a UKMTO warning, not a JMIC numbered update, and not a rewrite of Sunday’s dedicated Warning 164-26 or Warning 165-26 files. The board’s newest named row is VALTHERA, IMO 9296389, dated 10 October, Strait of Hormuz — Oman territorial waters, damaged, no pollution. GEM NO. 2, IMO 9735373, is printed for 9 October at 13 nautical miles west of Al Jazeera, United Arab Emirates, damaged, no pollution. ACERS, IMO 9301902, is printed for 7 October at 51 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, damaged, no pollution. Those three lines convert hulls that had sat as industry matching, or as India’s naming, into an official IMO print. They do not convert them into a UKMTO or JMIC naming.
The same 12 October snapshot still holds the fatality count at 24. It does not add Sunday’s Sohar UAV file or Sunday’s outbound Hormuz projectile file. It does not print PETRO DOLPHIN. It does not print ANGOLA PROSPERITY. Masters who brief Monday as a completed weekly tape, or as UKMTO finally naming those Sunday hulls, will have misread the instrument.
What the 12 October board actually adds
The last time this desk used the board as a working count, the 5–6 October snapshots still sat at 93 confirmed incidents. Monday’s page is 104. The fatality line did not move. What moved is the named list. IMO now prints, among the rows added since that earlier 93, VALTHERA on 10 October in Oman territorial waters of the Strait; GEM NO. 2 on 9 October on the exact Al Jazeera range of dedicated Warning 160-26; ACERS on 7 October on the exact Qatar range of dedicated Warning 158-26; ST1, IMO 9256999, on 6 October, two nautical miles off the coast of Oman near Jazirat, damaged, no pollution; MARAN GAS MYSTRAS, IMO 9658238, on 5 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution; ON PEACE, IMO 9893204, on 5 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution, twelve seafarers injured; GAS VELA, IMO 9969845, on 4 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution; CAMEROON PROSPERITY on 4 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution, with the board still carrying an eight-digit IMO string 93151598 that open registers list as 9315159; LIPSI, IMO 1025033, on 4 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution; GHANA PROSPERITY, IMO 9732541, on 3 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution; UHUD, IMO 9254939, on 2 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution; PROMISE, IMO 1038896, on 2 October, four nautical miles east of Oman, damaged, no pollution; and KAZIMAH III, IMO 9329693, on 1 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution.
ON PEACE, MARAN GAS MYSTRAS and LIPSI remain the dedicated flag-and-casualty files already on this desk. The 12 October board is wrap context on those three, not a reason to reopen them. CAMEROON PROSPERITY and GHANA PROSPERITY were already board colour in earlier dedicated pieces. PROMISE was already an IMO name on the 149-26 geometry and stayed unused as a dedicated Promise article. The operational change on Monday is the first official IMO print of VALTHERA, GEM NO. 2, ACERS, GAS VELA, ST1 and UHUD.
Hold the clocks. India’s ports, shipping and waterways minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, and the Ministry of External Affairs dated MT Valthera to 11 October as a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker struck by an unknown projectile, with a fire on board and 11 Indian seafarers safe. That naming is colour in Sunday’s dedicated Warning 164-26 piece, which remains an unnamed 11 October, 1200 UTC, Company Security Officer Attack product. IMO’s board dates VALTHERA to 10 October in Oman territorial waters of the Strait, damaged, with no pollution line and no fire line and no crew line. Vanguard Tech, as carried by Seatrade on Monday, also dates a Marshall Islands-flagged Suezmax Valthera to 10 October, port-side projectile, fire, master requesting assistance, crew safe, and puts a separate 11 October CSO outbound on the Sinokor VLCC Angola Prosperity. IMO has not printed ANGOLA PROSPERITY. UKMTO has not named 162-26, 164-26 or 165-26. Treat Monday as three desks: an IMO 10 October Valthera print, an Indian 11 October Valthera naming, and an unnamed UKMTO 11 October 164-26 warning. Do not collapse them.
The three newly printed hulls
GEM NO. 2 is the first official IMO print on the dedicated 9 October Warning 160-26 geometry. UKMTO’s Attack product remains unnamed: 13 nautical miles west of Al Jazeera, UAE, unknown projectile, fire extinguished, crew, damage and environment unknown at warning time, source third party. Reuters, Vanguard and later Indian labour-supplying-state lines had already matched a Panama VLCC GEM NO. 2 / GEM NO.2, IMO 9735373. This desk held that matching as colour and did not write a dedicated naming until UKMTO, JMIC or the flag printed the hull. IMO has now printed GEM NO. 2, IMO 9735373, 9 October, 13 NM west of Al Jazeera, damaged, no pollution. That is an IMO naming, not a UKMTO naming and not a JMIC Update 104. Open-register colour only: Panama, MMSI 354264000, call sign 3FQW3, crude-oil tanker, built 2017, about 330 by 60 metres, about 156,853 gross tons and 302,783 deadweight. Those particulars are not a class survey and not a cargo finding on Friday’s voyage.
ACERS is the first official IMO print on the dedicated 7 October Warning 158-26 geometry. UKMTO’s Attack product remains unnamed: 51 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, multiple projectiles, casualties reported. JMIC Update 103, ICOD 081500 UTC 8 October, still lists 158-26 as “Name withheld UFN,” three UAVs, engine-room fire extinguished, one crew injury, voyage continued. Vanguard, BBC, Splash and Reuters matching of an Antigua-and-Barbuda oil/chemical tanker Acers, IMO 9301902, stayed industry colour. IMO has now printed ACERS, IMO 9301902, 7 October, 51 NM north of Madinat ash Shamal, damaged, no pollution. It does not print a casualty count. It does not print UAVs. It does not print a continued voyage. Open-register colour only: Antigua and Barbuda, MMSI 305058300, call sign V2B2058, chemical/oil-products tanker, built 2006, about 183 by 32 metres, about 29,683 gross tons and 51,371 deadweight. Do not treat Monday as UKMTO naming Acers, as a rewrite of Update 103, or as a closed injury list.
ST1, GAS VELA and UHUD had not had a dedicated file on this desk. IMO now prints ST1, IMO 9256999, 6 October, two nautical miles off Oman near Jazirat, damaged, no pollution. UKMTO Warning 159-26 remains an unnamed time-late 6 October, 1709 UTC, verified-source crude Attack in the Strait of Hormuz, no casualties, damage and environment unknown. Do not force ST1 onto 159-26. The geometries are not the same sentence. Open-register colour only on ST1: Marshall Islands VLCC, MMSI 538011222, call sign V7A6819, built 2004, about 336 by 60 metres, about 160,247 gross tons and 314,000 deadweight. VesselFinder’s last public AIS was about 29 days stale, last port Jebel Ali Anchorage on 13 September, draught about 20.4 metres. That is tracker colour, not an IMO position.
GAS VELA, IMO 9969845, is printed for 4 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution. Seatrade, Vanguard and Pole Star had already matched a Singapore-flag LPG operated by Sinogas Maritime. Open-register colour only: Singapore, call sign 9VCG9, LPG tanker, built 2024, about 230 metres, about 54,492 gross tons and 58,155 deadweight. UHUD, IMO 9254939, is printed for 2 October in the Strait, damaged, no pollution. Open-register colour only: Panama products tanker, MMSI 370949000, call sign 3FZX2, built 2003, about 180 by 32 metres, about 28,059 gross tons and 45,987 deadweight. MagicPort’s 12 October screening colour listed registered owner Master Energy LLC and commercial and ISM manager Emirates Shipping LLC, and said the hull was not on the watchlists it screens. That is a screening product, not an IMO sanctions finding.
Operational implications
The board is a named, confirmed-incident list with a damage/pollution/casualty line. It is slower than UKMTO and it is not JMIC. Update 103 remains the last numbered public JMIC note, ICOD 081500 UTC 8 October, Hormuz SEVERE. Monday’s IMO page sits after that cut-off on Valthera, Gem No. 2 and the 9–10 October rows, and it still does not include 11 October. A master’s pack that replaces Update 103 with the IMO board, or that treats 104 as a UKMTO count, will brief the wrong instrument.
For CSOs, the practical change is the sanctions, insurance and labour paper that now has an IMO name on files that were previously “industry matching only.” A Panama VLCC on the Al Jazeera range, an Antigua products tanker on the Qatar range, and a Marshall Islands Suezmax on an Oman-territorial-waters Hormuz date are no longer unnamed on the IMO sheet. Charterers, P&I and war-risk underwriters who have been holding GEM NO. 2, ACERS or VALTHERA as a security-house match 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 104.
Sunday’s two dedicated UKMTO files remain unnamed on this board. Warning 164-26 is still an unnamed outbound tanker, unidentified projectile, port side, damage, all crew safe, no environmental impact reported at the time of the attack. Warning 165-26 is still an unnamed tanker at Sohar anchorage, UAV, local authorities assisting evacuation, damage and environment unknown. India’s Petro Dolphin and Valthera namings sit beside those products; they do not move the IMO count. Vanguard’s Angola Prosperity line on the 11 October CSO outbound is still industry matching. Do not invent an IMO row to close Sunday.
Do not recast Monday as a Hormuz reopen, a UKMTO-named Sunday tape, a JMIC downgrade, a completed pollution survey, or a rewrite of Warning 158-26, 160-26, 162-26, 164-26 or 165-26.
What Operators Should Note
- Log the 12 October IMO board, not a UKMTO naming. 104 confirmed incidents. 24 seafarers dead. Newest named row VALTHERA, IMO 9296389, 10 October, Strait of Hormuz — Oman territorial waters, damaged, no pollution. Replace the 5–6 October 93-count snapshot in the master’s pack. Do not replace Update 103. ICOD remains 081500 UTC 8 October. Hormuz remains SEVERE.
- Treat GEM NO. 2 as an IMO print on the 160-26 geometry, not as a UKMTO naming. IMO 9735373, 9 October, 13 NM west of Al Jazeera, damaged, no pollution. Dedicated Warning 160-26 remains unnamed, third-party, fire extinguished, crew unknown at warning time. Open particulars: Panama VLCC, about 330 × 60 m, about 302,783 dwt. Put the IMO name on the company file. Do not brief a UKMTO PDF that prints the hull.
- Treat ACERS as an IMO print on the 158-26 geometry, not as a rewrite of Update 103. IMO 9301902, 7 October, 51 NM north of Madinat ash Shamal, damaged, no pollution. UKMTO still unnamed, multiple projectiles, casualties reported. Update 103 still “Name withheld UFN,” three UAVs, one injury, voyage continued. IMO prints none of those extra lines. Open particulars: Antigua and Barbuda chemical/oil-products tanker, about 183 × 32 m, about 51,371 dwt.
- Hold Valthera’s three clocks. IMO: 10 October, Oman TTW, damaged, no pollution, no fire, no crew line. India: 11 October, Marshall Islands MT Valthera, unknown projectile, fire, 11 Indian seafarers safe. UKMTO 164-26: 11 October, 1200 UTC, unnamed CSO outbound, port-side projectile, damage, crew safe, no environmental impact at the time of the attack. Vanguard’s Angola Prosperity match on that CSO line is not on the IMO board. Do not force one hull onto Sunday’s unnamed warning.
- Do not force ST1, GAS VELA or UHUD onto a numbered UKMTO product. ST1, IMO 9256999, 6 October, 2 NM off Oman near Jazirat — not a completed match to unused 159-26. GAS VELA, IMO 9969845, 4 October, Strait, Singapore LPG on open registers. UHUD, IMO 9254939, 2 October, Strait, Panama products on open registers. Damaged, no pollution on all three. No IMO attacker, no cargo, no class note.
- Sunday is still off this board. 164-26 and 165-26, Petro Dolphin, and Vanguard’s Angola Prosperity line are not among the 104 named rows. Do not brief 104 as a completed 11 October tape, a Sohar confirmation, or a JMIC Update 104.
Regulas Shipping will keep lining the IMO highlighted-incidents board against UKMTO numbered products and JMIC Update 103 so operators can treat Monday’s 104-count and the new Valthera, Gem No. 2 and Acers prints as an IMO instrument, not as a UKMTO naming or a Hormuz reopen.
