Romania\u2019s Maritime Hydrographic Directorate has published a new radio navigational warning that is now the working prohibited area on live firing north of the Constanta \/ Midia coastal belt. The official English text, printed on the Directorate\u2019s avize-radio page and published 5 November 2026, states: BLACK SEA. ROMANIA. REAL FIRING. Real firing on days of 12 November 2026 and 13 November 2026 from 07.00 UTC to 13.00 UTC in the area bounded by 44-25,43 N 028-42,50 E, 44-29,50 N 028-55,58 E, 44-25,08 N 029-01,20 E, 44-19,70 N 029-00,82 E, 44-14,57 N 028-57,93 E, 44-13,10 N 028-56,33 E and 44-22,08 N 028-42,42 E. Prohibited area to navigation. Cancel this message on 131400 UTC November 2026. The Romanian page prints the same seven corners as trageri reale, 12.11 and 13.11.2026, local hours 09.00\u201315.00, raionul este interzis pentru naviga\u021bie, and a cancel of 16.00 local on 13 November 2026. Industry coastal reprints and SeaLagom carry the notice as 166\/26, active until 131400 UTC on 13 November. Last night\u2019s unused folder logged this 5 November body as 165\/2026 before the industry number was retrieved; hold 166\/26 as the working industry number against the official English text.<\/p>\n
That is the working primary. Friday morning\u2019s product is a two-day prohibited live-firing box, not a rewrite of Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated ARN 164\/2026 avoid-the-area and not a second piping watch. It does not name a hull. It does not name an IMO number. It does not name a UAV, a VHF working channel, a numeric berth in cables, or a harbour-master closure of Constanta or Midia. It does not convert the box into a mine, a drifting tanker, or Wednesday afternoon\u2019s dedicated ARN 163\/2026 floating-piping polygon. Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated 164\/2026 piece on this desk remains real firing on 11 and 12 November, 0700\u20131200 UTC, four corners around 43-50 N, 028-59.5 E, dangerous to navigation, ships that do not participate should avoid the area, cancel 121300 UTC 12 November. That box sits south of this morning\u2019s south wall. Masters who brief Friday morning as a reprint of the 43-50 N rectangle, as a Khoryv move, as a Contship Jet firing, or as a revival of cancelled ARN 162\/2026 will have merged a seven-corner prohibited box onto a different firing series.<\/p>\n
The hydrographic text is short and is the working primary. BLACK SEA. ROMANIA. REAL FIRING. Published 5 November 2026. Real firing on 12 November 2026 and 13 November 2026, 0700 to 1300 UTC each day. Area bounded by 44-25.43 N 028-42.50 E, 44-29.50 N 028-55.58 E, 44-25.08 N 029-01.20 E, 44-19.70 N 029-00.82 E, 44-14.57 N 028-57.93 E, 44-13.10 N 028-56.33 E and 44-22.08 N 028-42.42 E. Prohibited area to navigation. Cancel 131400 UTC 13 November 2026. That is the product. Stay with that wording. The Directorate did not print a hull name. It did not print an IMO number. It did not print \u201cUAV,\u201d \u201cdrone,\u201d \u201cmissile,\u201d or a weapon class beyond real firing. It did not print a VHF working channel, a range-safety net, or a NOTAM number. It did not print a keep-clear in nautical miles or cables around the polygon. The instruction is prohibited area to navigation, not Wednesday night\u2019s dangerous \/ avoid sentence and not a one-nautical-mile halo outside the seven corners. It did not close Constanta, Midia, Mangalia or the Sulina Canal. It did not print a night window. The firing clocks are 0700\u20131300 UTC on two named days.<\/p>\n
The geometry is the first briefing fact. The seven corners describe an irregular polygon about 16 nautical miles north\u2013south, from 44-13.10 N to 44-29.50 N, and about 13 to 16 nautical miles across, from 028-42.42 E to 029-01.20 E. The west wall sits near 028-42.4 E, on the doorstep of Midia. The south wall sits at 44-13.10 N, north of Constanta and north of Wednesday night\u2019s 164\/2026 north wall at 43-55 N. The centre sits near 44-21 N, 028-52 E, not in the inshore Mangalia hose water and not in Wednesday night\u2019s 43-50 N rectangle. Plot the seven corners. A passage plan that only carried Wednesday night\u2019s 10-by-12-nautical-mile avoid box at 43-50 N, or that treated the Midia approaches as empty because 164\/2026 sits south of 43-55 N, has not budgeted a prohibited polygon whose west wall is 028-42.4 E and whose south wall is 44-13.10 N. Do not treat Midia as closed. Do not treat Constanta as closed. Do not run 12 and 13 November mornings as if the water east of Midia were empty.<\/p>\n
The standing recommended-routes notice, still on the same avize-radio page as ARN 119\/2024, is the second briefing fact, used as colour, not as a 166\/2026 amendment. Ships approaching and leaving Romanian harbours are still advised to use 43-47.59 N, 028-50.86 E and, as the case may be, recommended track 1 to 43-47.5 N, 028-37.61 E, track 2 north into the Constanta TSS, and track 4 toward the Ukrainian approaches. 43-47.59 N remains Wednesday night\u2019s 164\/2026 problem: that landfall sits on the doorstep of the 43-45 N to 43-55 N avoid box. It is not inside this morning\u2019s 44-13 N to 44-29 N polygon. Track 2\u2019s 44-11.33 N, 028-50.86 E waypoint sits just south of this morning\u2019s south wall. Track 2\u2019s 44-15.52 N, 028-45.04 E inner approach sits near the south-west diagonal of the seven corners and must be plotted, not assumed clean. Track 4 from 44-00.57 N, 028-50.87 E toward 44-26.93 N, 029-43.20 E runs east of the printed east wall at 029-01.20 E on the plotted join; do not invent a Directorate reroute, and do not treat track 4 as cancelled. Hold the seven corners. Do not occupy 44-21 N, 028-52 E during the firing windows.<\/p>\n
The clocks are the third briefing fact. English prints 0700\u20131300 UTC on 12 and 13 November. Romanian prints 09.00\u201315.00 local on 12.11 and 13.11. Those match: Eastern European Time in November is UTC+2. The cancel is 131400 UTC, Romanian 16.00 local on 13 November. That is one hour after the second day\u2019s 1300 UTC stop, not a 13 November 0700 open-ended watch. A passage plan that treats the box as live all day on 12 and 13 November has over-read two six-hour windows. A passage plan that drops the box at 1300 UTC on 12 November has under-read a second day. A passage plan that keeps avoiding 44-21 N, 028-52 E after 131400 UTC 13 November without a replacement ARN has over-read a self-cancelling firing notice. The Directorate has not printed a night window, a 14\u201330 November extension, or a reduced polygon. Plot the seven corners. Stay out of the area 0700\u20131300 UTC on 12 and 13 November. Kill the watch at 131400 UTC on 13 November unless a later ARN moves the plot.<\/p>\n
The 12 November overlap with dedicated 164\/2026 is the fourth briefing fact, not a merger. Wednesday night\u2019s box still fires 0700\u20131200 UTC on 12 November at 43-50 N and kills itself at 121300 UTC on 12 November. This morning\u2019s box fires 0700\u20131300 UTC on 12 November at 44-21 N and continues on 13 November. Those are two numbered products on the same morning, two polygons, two instructions. 164\/2026 is dangerous \/ avoid. 166\/26 is prohibited. A passage plan that drops 164\/2026 at sunrise on 12 November because \u201cthe new firing is off Midia\u201d has deleted a live 43-50 N rectangle whose cancel is still 121300 UTC. A passage plan that drops 166\/26 at 121300 UTC because 164\/2026 dies then has deleted a 44-21 N prohibited box that still has 13 November to run. Carry both.<\/p>\n
The missing UAV, VHF and numeric-berth lines are omissions, not a completed exercise order. An October coastal firing product on this coast printed real firing and UAV flight activities together. 166\/26 prints real firing only. Do not restore a UAV line. Do not invent a missile corridor. Do not invent Channel 16 as a range-safety net because dedicated Khoryv files used it. Do not borrow 162\/2026\u2019s two nautical miles, 158\/2026\u2019s one nautical mile, or 766\/26\u2019s five cables onto a polygon that already says prohibited. Give the seven corners. Do not invent a one-nautical-mile halo around them.<\/p>\n
The Romanian public map-page number is a label split, not a rewrite of Wednesday night\u2019s firing. The live Romanian avize-radio list currently prints ARN 164\/2026 next to this morning\u2019s 12\u201313 November trageri reale item and ARN 163\/2026 next to the 11\u201312 November trageri reale item. That is the same map-page shift this desk has already seen on this coastline: the public list attaches an older number to the newest card. Official English published 5 November does not print a number in the body retrieved this morning. Industry coastal reprints and SeaLagom number the 12\u201313 November firing as 166\/26 and still number the 11\u201312 November firing as 164\/26. Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated file remains ARN 164\/2026, four corners, 0700\u20131200 UTC, cancel 121300 UTC 12 November. Do not overwrite that file with this morning\u2019s prohibited box. Do not brief 166\/26 as \u201c164 reprinted.\u201d Log industry 166\/26 against the 5 November English real-firing body. Log the map-page 164 tag as a label discrepancy, not as a second 43-50 N amendment.<\/p>\n
This is not a rewrite of ARN 164\/2026, and it is not a 43-50 N move. Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated Directorate piece remains: real firing, 11 and 12 November, 0700\u20131200 UTC, 43-45.00 N 028-51.00 E, 43-55.00 N 028-51.00 E, 43-55.00 N 029-08.00 E, 43-45.00 N 029-08.00 E, dangerous to navigation, ships that do not participate should avoid the area, cancel 121300 UTC 12 November. That rectangle is about 10 by 12 nautical miles around 43-50 N, 028-59.5 E, on the doorstep of recommended landfall 43-47.59 N, 028-50.86 E. This morning\u2019s south wall is 44-13.10 N, on the order of 18 nautical miles north of that north wall. A prohibited heptagon off Midia and an avoid rectangle east of the 43-47.59 N landfall are two instruments. Do not brief Friday morning as \u201c164 moved north.\u201d Do not drop 164\/2026 because 166\/26 exists. The 43-50 N box still fires on 12 November. The Midia box still fires on 13 November after 164\/2026 has cancelled.<\/p>\n
This is not a rewrite of ARN 163\/2026, and it is not a Mangalia piping move. Wednesday afternoon\u2019s dedicated Directorate piece remains: protection works, floating piping, 43-46.38 N 028-34.86 E, 43-46.30 N 028-36.62 E, 43-47.50 N 028-36.72 E, 43-47.31 N 028-34.92 E, keep clear, safe distance, dangerous to navigation, cancel 152159 UTC 15 December. That box is about 1.2 by 1.1 nautical miles around 43-46.7 N, 028-35.8 E, inshore, south-west of both firing products. This morning\u2019s west wall is 028-42.4 E, and the piping longitudes remain 028-34 E to 028-36 E. Do not brief Friday morning as \u201cthe piping went live-fire.\u201d Do not drop 163\/2026 because 166\/26 exists. The hose still holds through 15 December. The firing kills itself on 13 November.<\/p>\n
This is not a rewrite of cancelled ARN 162\/2026, and it is not a Khoryv move. Sunday 1 November\u2019s dedicated Directorate piece remains the last Romanian drifting-object watch on this desk: ARN 162\/2026, 44-30.94 N 029-33.70 E, two-nautical-mile berth, cancel 021000 UTC 2 November. That cancel has passed. The live English page no longer lists 162\/2026. Tuesday 27 October\u2019s dedicated ARN 158\/2026 remains the last Romanian wreck-move on M\/V Khoryv: 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E, remains afloat, capsized, three missing, one-nautical-mile keep-clear. Thursday 29 October\u2019s dedicated Bulgarian NAVWARN 766\/26 remains the working five-cable keep-clear east of Shabla at 43-30.60 N, 028-43.69 E, well south of this morning\u2019s south wall. 166\/26 prints neither a drifting object nor Khoryv nor 44-30.94 N nor 43-49.50 N. Do not brief Friday morning as \u201cthe 44-30 N object became a firing box.\u201d Do not replace 766\/26\u2019s five cables with a Romanian prohibited polygon.<\/p>\n
This is not a rewrite of NAVWARN 768\/26, and it is not a Contship Jet firing. Thursday 29 October\u2019s dedicated Bulgarian notice remains: M\/V Contship Jet, IMO 9348625, sunk at 282030 UTC October 2026 in 43-07.80 N 028-45.36 E. Monday\u2019s dedicated 779\/26 remains four drifting containers east of Burgas Bay. Tuesday 3 November\u2019s dedicated 784\/26 remains a drifting tank east of Ahtopol. Thursday 5 November\u2019s dedicated 790\/26 remains two drifting containers east of Maslen Nos. Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated 797\/26 remains unmanned tanker Mentor, IMO 9340374, at 43-25.1 N 028-37.0 E. Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated 789\/26 remains Akademik, one nautical mile, through 30 November. Dedicated 777\/26 remains cutter 331 through 061600 UTC 6 November \u2014 still in force on this 0330 UTC Friday desk, past later today. 166\/26 does not name Contship Jet, Mentor, Akademik or cutter 331, does not print 43-07.80 N 028-45.36 E, and does not print a container count. Midia and the Bulgarian 43-25 N Mentor plot are not the same box. Do not convert Friday morning\u2019s live fire into Thursday\u2019s dedicated unmanned-tanker watch because both sit on the western Black Sea coast.<\/p>\n
This is not ARN 123\/2026, and it is not ARN 146\/2026. Official ARN 123\/2026 remains the separate coastal-protection works farther south-west of this morning\u2019s south-west corner: until 31 January 2027, anchors marked by orange buoys, 43-56.48 N 028-38.90 E and three other corners, cancel 312130 UTC 31 January 2027. That box prints orange buoys, not live fire. Official ARN 146\/2026 remains the missing port-hand light buoy at 43-48.17 N 028-33.72 E. Official ARN 41\/2026 remains the starboard light buoy out of position at 43-47.92 N 028-34.68 E. Those are buoyage defects inshore of the piping. They are not 166\/26. Do not brief the prohibited box as a replacement for a missing buoy.<\/p>\n
This is not Wine Trader, not Royad Mammadov, and not Progress IV. ARN 145\/2026 remains the 15 October fire-and-unmanned notice on M\/V Wine Trader at 45-00.40 N 029-59.92 E. ARN 141\/2026 remains M\/V Royad Mammadov in danger of sinking at 44-27.64 N 029-46.90 E. ARN 118\/2026 remains M\/V Progress IV sunk at 44-37.64 N 029-48.14 E, two-nautical-mile safety zone. 166\/26 names none of those hulls. A DPA who briefs Friday morning as \u201cRoyad Mammadov\u2019s box went live-fire\u201d has borrowed a 7 October sinking plot and has dropped the unnamed firing that is the whole of this notice.<\/p>\n
This is not Wednesday afternoon\u2019s dedicated NAVAREA III 0169\/26, and it is not Tuesday afternoon\u2019s dedicated 0168\/26. 0168\/26 remains weekly group 44, the 3 November in-force list, cancel 092359 UTC 9 November, and does not print a Romanian firing number. 0169\/26 is the Britoil Centurion oceanographic track in the Central Mediterranean. Neither number prints 44-25 N 028-42 E. Romanian coastal ARNs do not appear in 0168\/26\u2019s 2026 list. SafetyNet at 1200 UTC and 2359 UTC will not carry 166\/26 merely because 0168\/26 is in force. Keep the Directorate file in the master\u2019s Black Sea coastal pack alongside the NAVAREA III wrapper, not inside it. This is also not NAVAREA IX 431\/26\u2019s Fujairah jack-up, issued this morning on a different coordinator, not 424\/26\u2019s 3\u20134 November Pakistan firing box, which cancelled at 040700 UTC on 4 November, and not 414\/26\u2019s November Pakistan series around 24 N. Those are Arabian Sea and Southern Gulf products. They do not belong on a Romanian 44-21 N watch.<\/p>\n
Official HNHS NAVWARN 1338\/2026, English board 5 November, THRAKIKO SEA. MARONEIA PORT. NE MOLE HEAD. RED LIGHT IN POSITION: 40 52 36N \u2013 025 30 26E UNLIT, and NAVWARN 1339\/2026, THRAKIKO SEA. VISTONIKOS BAY IMEROS PORT. EAST MOLE HEAD RED LIGHT IN POSITION 40 56 00N \u2013 025 21 40E UNLIT, remain unused as dedicated. They are Thracian Sea unlit-light products, not a Romanian firing, and they are wrap colour on this Black Sea desk, not a second Midia piece.<\/p>\n
For a master inbound to Midia or northern Constanta, or running recommended track 2 in from 44-11.33 N, 028-50.86 E toward 44-15.52 N, 028-45.04 E, Friday morning is a two-morning prohibited-fire problem east of Midia before it is a war-risk rewrite. The Directorate printed a seven-corner polygon whose west wall sits on the Midia longitude, named 0700\u20131300 UTC on 12 and 13 November, named a prohibited area to navigation, and named a 131400 UTC 13 November cancel. Real firing under a prohibited sentence is a closed polygon for ships that are not in the exercise. It is not AIS-optional. It is not a port closure. The standing recommended-routes notice still tells ships to use 43-47.59 N, 028-50.86 E for landfall; that waypoint remains Wednesday night\u2019s 164\/2026 watch, not this box. A passage plan that only carried 164\/2026, or that treated 12\u201313 November as empty north of 43-55 N because the 43-50 N rectangle was the last Romanian firing on the desk, has not budgeted six hours on each of two mornings on the east side of Midia.<\/p>\n
The 12 November double watch is the operational content. 164\/2026 still occupies 43-50 N from 0700 to 1200 UTC on 12 November and cancels at 121300 UTC. 166\/26 occupies 44-21 N from 0700 to 1300 UTC on 12 November and again on 13 November. A master who only plots one \u201cRomanian firing\u201d for Friday week has under-read two numbers. Charterers who still treat the Romanian coast as a quiet alternative to Ukrainian ports now have a two-morning prohibited box on the doorstep of Midia, a two-morning avoid box on the doorstep of 43-47.59 N landfall, a six-week unnamed piping watch west of track 1, a still-open Khoryv file on a different plot, a still-open Contship Jet container watch farther south on the Bulgarian board, a still-open Mentor unmanned-tanker file, a still-open Akademik mile inside Bulgarian territorial sea, and cutter 331 still live through 061600 UTC today. Deviation language that treats 166\/26 as a Constanta or Midia shutdown has misread a self-cancelling firing notice with two six-hour windows. War-risk underwriters will ask for the seven corners, the 12\u201313 November clocks, the prohibited sentence, the 131400 UTC cancel, and a written statement that this notice is not 164\/2026, not 163\/2026, not Khoryv, and not cancelled 162\/2026.<\/p>\n
The reporting split is unchanged. 166\/26 does not reprint a mailbox. Dedicated 158\/2026 still tells ships to report to MRCC Constanta on VHF 16 or mrcc@rna.ro. The standing mine-and-drifting-object recommendation still asks ships to report mine-like objects on VHF 16 to NtM@dhmfn.ro, mrcc@rna.ro and scomar@mai.gov.ro. 166\/26 does not convert Friday morning\u2019s firing into a confirmed mine. It also does not authorise a master to occupy 44-21 N, 028-52 E at 0800 UTC on 12 November because \u201cno NOTAM hit the bridge file.\u201d Log the industry 166\/26 number, the 5 November publication, the seven corners, the real-firing line, the prohibited sentence, the 0700\u20131300 UTC windows on 12 and 13 November, and the 131400 UTC 13 November cancel. Do not log Khoryv, Contship Jet, Mentor, UAV, a two-nautical-mile berth, orange buoys, or a 164\/2026 43-50 N move that the notice does not print.<\/p>\n
A night transit on 12 and 13 November is not this product. The English body prints 0700\u20131300 UTC. It does not print 1300\u20130700 UTC. That is not a licence to linger on 44-21 N, 028-52 E at 1400 UTC if the range is still hot, and it is not an order to stay clear after 131400 UTC on 13 November. Give the printed windows. Keep the lookout. Do not treat Midia or Constanta as closed unless the Authority or the harbour master says so.<\/p>\n
Keep the dedicated files on their own lines. ARN 164\/2026 remains Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated 11\u201312 November avoid box at 43-50 N, 028-59 E through 121300 UTC 12 November. ARN 163\/2026 remains Wednesday afternoon\u2019s dedicated floating-piping box at 43-46.4 N, 028-35.8 E through 152159 UTC 15 December. ARN 158\/2026 remains the dedicated Khoryv wreck-move at 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E. NAVWARN 766\/26 remains the dedicated five-cable Khoryv keep-clear east of Shabla. NAVWARN 768\/26 remains the dedicated Contship Jet wreck. NAVWARN 797\/26 remains Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated Mentor unmanned tanker. NAVWARN 790\/26 remains Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated Maslen Nos pair. NAVWARN 789\/26 remains Akademik, one nautical mile, Bulgarian territorial sea through 30 November. NAVWARN 784\/26 remains the Ahtopol tank. NAVWARN 779\/26 remains the Burgas four-container watch. NAVWARN 777\/26 remains cutter 331 through 061600 UTC 6 November. ARN 123\/2026 remains the separate orange-buoy works box at 43-56 N through 31 January 2027. ARN 146\/2026 remains the missing port-hand buoy. ARN 162\/2026 remains cancelled at 021000 UTC 2 November. Do not recast 6 November morning as a 164\/2026 rewrite, as a Khoryv inshore jump, as a Mentor firing, or as a Romanian port closure.<\/p>\n
Regulas Shipping will keep lining Friday morning\u2019s ARN 166\/26 prohibited firing box at 44-21 N, 028-52 E against Wednesday night\u2019s dedicated 164\/2026 avoid box at 43-50 N so operators can treat 12 and 13 November mornings as two numbered products, not as a single Romanian firing or a Midia port closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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