Kerkyra Radio has now printed an official NAVWARN against a live-firing practice area in the Ionian Sea west of Zakynthos, not a reprint of Saturday night\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 1343\/26 Fournoi firing box and not a second Drapano FORACS file. The working primary retrieved this run is official Kerkyra Radio NAVWARN 201\/26, broadcast as ZCZC KA09 060946 UTC NOV 26: IONIAN SEA. ACTIVATION OF FIRING PRACTICE AREA \u2018ZAKYNTHOS\u2019. LIVE FIRING EXERCISES WILL BE CARREID OUT BY SLOVENIAN AIR FORCE FROM 09 UNTIL 13 NOV 26 FROM 0630 UTC UNTIL 0730 UTC, AND ON 09,10, AND 12 NOV 26 FROM 0930 UTC UNTIL 1045 UTC AND ON 11 NOV 2026 FROM 1045 UTC UNTIL 1200 UTC IN THE SEA AREA BOUNDED BY: 37-38.6N 020-00.4E \/ 37-20.1N 020-59.5E \/ 36-53.2N 020-56.6E \/ 37-19.4N 019-58.2E. AVOID CROSSING ABOVE AREA. CANCEL THIS MSG ON 130830 UTC NOV 26. Official wording keeps CARREID and the quoted range name ZAKYNTHOS. That is Sunday morning\u2019s working Ionian coastal instrument. It is a four-corner Ionian box with a five-day split-hour serial, not a rewrite of dedicated 1343\/26, not a rewrite of dedicated 1342\/26, and not a Hormuz Attack PDF.<\/p>\n
The warning is a Kerkyra Radio NAVTEX. It is not NAVAREA III 0169\/26. It is not NAVAREA IX 433\/26. It is not UKMTO 198-26. Friday afternoon\u2019s dedicated IMO board remains 129 confirmed incidents as at 6 November, with 25 seafarer fatalities. Masters who brief Sunday morning as a Zakynthos or Kyllini port closure, as Saturday night\u2019s Fournoi firing reprinted west of 024 E, as dedicated 1342\/26\u2019s Drapano FORACS box pulled into the Ionian, or as wrap 1409\/26\u2019s Saronic Plateia window filed again will have over-read a timed Ionian firing prohibition. 201\/26 tells the bridge which sea, which four points, which five days and which split UTC hours to plot. It does not print a keep-clear radius outside the polygon, a VHF working channel, a hull, an IMO number, a RAM line, a weapon class beyond live firing, or a NOTAM number. Hold the official wording, including \u201clive firing exercises,\u201d \u201cSlovenian Air Force,\u201d \u201cavoid crossing above area,\u201d and the printed CARREID spelling.<\/p>\n
The hydrographic text is short and is the working primary. Ionian Sea. Activation of firing practice area \u2018Zakynthos\u2019. Live firing exercises will be carried out by Slovenian Air Force, official body CARREID, from 9 until 13 November 2026 from 0630 UTC until 0730 UTC, and on 9, 10 and 12 November 2026 from 0930 UTC until 1045 UTC, and on 11 November 2026 from 1045 UTC until 1200 UTC, in the sea area bounded by the four points listed above. Avoid crossing above area. Cancel this message on 130830 UTC 13 November. Stay with that wording. Kerkyra printed a range name. It printed a live-firing sentence. It printed an air-force user. It printed a five-day date line. It printed three separate hour groups. It printed four coordinates. It printed avoid crossing. It printed a cancel DTG. It did not print a hull name. It did not print an IMO number, an MMSI, a flag, a call sign, a wreck buoy, a least depth, a fishing or anchoring prohibition outside the box, a restricted-in-ability-to-manoeuvre line, a VHF channel, a missile or gunnery class beyond live firing, or a harbour-master closure. Do not invent a five-cable or one-nautical-mile halo around the polygon. 201\/26 does not print one. Do not invent a 16 November second serial. That date belongs to wrap Irakleio 1409\/26\u2019s Plateia window, not to this Zakynthos box. Do not invent a 081500Z 8 November kill. That window belongs to dedicated 1343\/26\u2019s Fournoi firing, not to this Ionian serial.<\/p>\n
The geometry is the first briefing fact. The four-point box sits in the Ionian Sea west of Zakynthos and the western Peloponnese. North-west corner 37-38.6N 020-00.4E. North-east corner 37-20.1N 020-59.5E. South-east corner 36-53.2N 020-56.6E. South-west corner 37-19.4N 019-58.2E. That is on the order of 45 nautical miles north\u2013south by 50 nautical miles east\u2013west, not a circular exclusion, not a TSS amendment, and not Saturday night\u2019s dedicated ~0.6-by-0.9-nautical-mile Fournoi box. The Zakynthos west-about, the Kefalonia\u2013Zakynthos face, the Katakolo and Kyllini approaches and the north\u2013south Ionian coastal all see a wall. Do not brief a Zakynthos shutdown from a four-corner range. Do not brief a Piraeus rewrite. Plot the four points. Stay out of the polygon in the printed hour groups from 9 to 13 November. Do not assume the rest of each day is a printed all-clear for other hazards; the prohibition is the printed windows, not the other twenty-odd hours, unless a later NAVWARN says otherwise.<\/p>\n
The date line is the second briefing fact. Work is printed as from 9 until 13 November 2026. Three hour groups sit inside that tape. Every day 9\u201313 November: 0630\u20130730 UTC, a one-hour morning serial. On 9, 10 and 12 November only: a second window 0930\u20131045 UTC. On 11 November only: a second window 1045\u20131200 UTC, not 0930\u20131045. Cancel 130830 UTC 13 November, one hour after the last 0630\u20130730 window closes and with no 0930 window printed on the 13th. Sunday morning is 8 November. The first prohibited hour is still 0630 UTC on 9 November. A passage plan that treats 8 November as already closed west of Zakynthos has under-read a box that opens tomorrow morning. A passage plan that treats 9\u201313 November as closed around the clock has over-read three short windows. A passage plan that carries the watch through 16 November because \u201cGreek firing is a two-day Saronic series\u201d has borrowed wrap 1409\/26\u2019s Plateia dates and dropped Zakynthos\u2019s 13 November kill. 201\/26 is a numbered radio alert. It lives from 0630 UTC on 9 November through 130830 UTC on 13 November unless a later Kerkyra NAVWARN cancels or amends it. 0630 UTC in November is 0830 Eastern European Time. Do not invent a 0400\u20131700 UTC Saronic window on this box.<\/p>\n
The instruction line is the third briefing fact. Avoid crossing above area. That is the same keep-out sentence as Saturday night\u2019s dedicated 1343\/26 and as wrap 1409\/26. It is a live-firing sentence. It is not dedicated 1342\/26\u2019s \u201ccrossing above this area is prohibited\u201d on a FORACS-checks body. Live firing exercises, Slovenian Air Force, are the printed reason. Kerkyra did not print \u201cmissile,\u201d \u201cgunnery,\u201d \u201ctorpedo,\u201d or \u201csubmarine\u201d beyond the live-firing line. Do not convert an Ionian Zakynthos box into dedicated 1343\/26\u2019s Fournoi firing because both print avoid crossing. Do not convert it into dedicated 1342\/26\u2019s Drapano FORACS box because both occupy 9\u201313 November. Give the four points, the five days and the split hour groups. Stay out of the polygon in those hours. Do not occupy 37-20 N, 020-30 E at 0700 UTC on 9 November because \u201cZakynthos pilots are working.\u201d<\/p>\n
Industry-reprint colour, held separately: the English NAVTEX body sits on the Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service\u2019s NAVTEX archive as Kerkyra Radio NAVWARN 201\/26, broadcast 060946 UTC 6 November. That is the same four-point box, the same 9\u201313 November tape, the same split hours, the same avoid-crossing line and the same 130830 UTC 13 November cancel. Hold that as the official body, not as a second Zakynthos piece. Saturday night\u2019s dedicated 1343\/26 remains the Fournoi firing box, 080600Z\u2013081500Z 8 November, four points around 37-32 N 026-30 E, avoid crossing, with Irakleio 1408\/26 wrapping the same box to 081600 UTC 8 November. That is a one-day Samos firing still live this morning. 201\/26 is a five-day Ionian firing that has not yet opened. Do not collapse Fournoi onto Zakynthos. Do not collapse Zakynthos onto Fournoi.<\/p>\n
This is not a rewrite of dedicated NAVWARN 1343\/26. Saturday night\u2019s dedicated piece remains: SAMOS SEA. FOURNOI ISLANDS. FIRING EXERCISES. From 080600Z to 081500Z 8 November 2026. Four-point box around 37-32 N 026-30 E. Avoid crossing above area. Official Irakleio 1408\/26 reprints that box with cancel 081600 UTC 8 November. That polygon sits in the Samos Sea, about six degrees east of 201\/26\u2019s east wall. 8 November is the day before 201\/26 opens. A DPA who briefs Sunday morning as \u201cFournoi has moved west onto Zakynthos\u201d has borrowed 1343\/26\u2019s one-day window and dropped the Ionian serial. Keep those numbers on their own sheets. 1343\/26 still kills at 1500Z on 8 November, with Irakleio 1408\/26\u2019s NAVTEX kill at 1600 UTC. 201\/26 opens at 0630 UTC on 9 November.<\/p>\n
This is not a rewrite of dedicated NAVWARN 1342\/26. Saturday morning\u2019s dedicated piece remains: CRETAN SEA. CRETE ISLAND. DRAPANO POINT. Prohibition of crossing boats due to FORACS checks. From 9 until 13 November 2026. From 0600Z until 1600Z of each day. Eight-point box around 35-27 N 024-20 E. Crossing above this area is prohibited. That box sits off north Crete. 201\/26 prints Zakynthos, a four-point Ionian box, live firing, and split morning hours. The date line 9\u201313 November is shared. The seas, the hours, the user and the instruction are not. A DPA who briefs Sunday morning as \u201cDrapano FORACS has moved west onto Zakynthos\u201d has borrowed 1342\/26\u2019s five-day window and dropped the live-firing sentence. Keep those numbers on their own sheets. 1342\/26 still occupies 0600Z\u20131600Z each day through 13 November. 201\/26 occupies 0630\u20130730 UTC each of those mornings, plus the later short windows, and kills at 130830 UTC 13 November. A master shaping 9 November may owe both: Drapano by day on the Cretan Sea, and Zakynthos in the printed Ionian hours. They are not the same product.<\/p>\n
This is not wrap Irakleio 1409\/26, and it is not a Saronic Plateia firing filed again. Official Irakleio Radio NAVWARN 1409\/26, ZCZC HA13 061054 UTC NOV 26, remains the other dedicated file on this 0330 UTC Sunday desk: SARONIKOS GULF, extension of activation of firing practice area Plateia on 9 November 2026 0400 UTC until 1700 UTC, and on 16 November 2026 0400 UTC until 1700 UTC, four corners around 37-48 N 023-22 E, avoid crossing, cancel 16 November 2026 1800 UTC. That is a two-day Saronic firing on 9 and 16 November, east of 023 E. 201\/26 is a five-day Ionian firing on 9\u201313 November, west of 021 E. Do not brief Sunday morning as \u201cPlateia extended onto Zakynthos.\u201d Do not invent a 16 November second day on 201\/26 because 1409\/26 prints one. Do not invent a 0400\u20131700 UTC overlay on 201\/26 because 1409\/26 prints one. Carry both on 9 November. They are two products, two seas, two hour groups.<\/p>\n
This is not Saturday afternoon\u2019s dedicated Irakleio 1411\/26, and it is not Abeille Marengo. Saturday afternoon\u2019s dedicated piece remains: EAST CRETAN SEA \/ SOUTHEAST CRETAN SEA \/ EAST MEDITERRANEAN SEA, research operation for underwater cable installation by \u2018ABEILLE MARENGO\u2019 from 6 November 2026 until 6 March 2027, 21-point line, wide berth requested 2 NM, cancel 062200 UTC 6 March 2027. 201\/26 names neither Abeille Marengo nor a cable track. A five-day Ionian firing is not a four-month east-Med cable. Do not collapse them because both sit on Hellenic NAVTEX boards. NAVAREA III 0171\/26 remains wrap on dedicated 1411\/26, unused as a second Abeille Marengo piece. Official Cyprus 345\/26 remains unused as dedicated.<\/p>\n
This is not dedicated NAVWARN 1336\/26, and it is not NG SURVEYOR moved west. Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated piece remains: SOUTH AIGAIO SEA, geophysical survey by \u2018NG SURVEYOR from 5 November 2026, 21-point line, wide berth requested, no printed end. That line sits in the Saronic and the South Aegean. 201\/26 prints no hull and no survey sentence. Do not brief Sunday morning as \u201cNG SURVEYOR has become an Ionian firing.\u201d Official HNHS 1338\/2026 Maroneia NE mole-head red light 40 52 36N 025 30 26E UNLIT, 1339\/2026 Vistonikos Bay Imeros Port east mole-head red light 40 56 00N 025 21 40E UNLIT, and 1351\/2026 Amvrakikos Gulf Amfilochia Bay Agios Georgios Point flashing green light 38 53 34N 021 09 04E UNLIT remain unused as dedicated. 1351\/26\u2019s Amvrakikos plot sits east of 201\/26\u2019s east wall and is an unlit light, not a firing box. Do not collapse the unlit light onto Zakynthos. Official 1345\/2026 Tragonisi semisunk wreck, 1347\/2026 Chalkida lightbuoy cut off and unlit, and 1350\/2026 Nea Moudania light unlit remain wrap.<\/p>\n
This is not a rewrite of dedicated NAVAREA III 0169\/26. Monday 4 November\u2019s dedicated piece remains oceanographic work on the Britoil Centurion, IMO 9619177, MMSI 566921000, days 5 November 2026 to 15 February 2027, dotted-line groups A and B in the Central Mediterranean, wide receipt requested. 0169\/26 prints a different hull, a different sea, a different point-group and a 15 February end. 201\/26 prints no hull, Ionian Sea, a four-point box, and a 13 November last hour. Dedicated 0168\/26 remains weekly group 44 through 092359 UTC 9 November and still does not print 201. A Greek coastal NAVWARN does not belong on a Spanish weekly wrapper. The 0168\/26 cancel at 092359 UTC sits the evening of 201\/26\u2019s first day; those are two clocks on two products, not a merged all-clear for the Ionian. NAVAREA III 0170\/26 remains unused as dedicated pending retrieval of the English body; it is not a 201 rewrite.<\/p>\n
This is not last night\u2019s dedicated UKMTO 198-26, not Friday night\u2019s dedicated 197-26, not Friday night\u2019s dedicated NAVAREA IX 432\/26, and not Saturday afternoon\u2019s dedicated 799\/26. 198-26 remains a 7 November Advisory, bulk carrier and military forces, 18 nautical miles east of Khor Fakkan, incident time TBC. 197-26 remains the tanker waterline explosion 16 NM east of Khasab. 432\/26 remains the partially submerged container at 25-09.71N 054-54.06E, cancel 082359 UTC 8 November \u2014 still in force at this 0330 UTC desk; past later today. 799\/26 remains the Varna port-and-road windows on 10 and 13 November. IMO remains 129 confirmed \/ 25 dead as at 6 November. An Ionian firing box does not belong on that tape.<\/p>\n
For a master already shaping a Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Katakolo, Kyllini, west-Peloponnese or north\u2013south Ionian passage on 9\u201313 November, Sunday morning is a timed keep-out problem before it is a security rewrite. Kerkyra printed a four-point box west of Zakynthos, named live firing exercises, named Slovenian Air Force, named 9\u201313 November, named three hour groups, and named avoid crossing. An avoid-crossing sentence under a bounded live-firing body is a closed polygon for ships that are not in the serial. It is not AIS-optional. It is not a Zakynthos port closure. It is not 1343\/26\u2019s one-day Fournoi box. It is not 1342\/26\u2019s five-day Drapano FORACS box. A passage plan that only budgeted 1343\/26\u2019s 8 November Samos window, or that treated the Ionian as clean because Saturday night\u2019s dedicated firing sat at 026-30 E, has not budgeted a four-corner box that opens at 0630 UTC on 9 November. Give the polygon. Stay out of it in the printed hours. Do not pass through 37-20 N, 020-30 E at 0700 UTC on 9 November because \u201cZakynthos is open.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 8\u201316 November Greek firing tape is the operational content a DPA has to get right. Dedicated 1343\/26 tells the bridge to avoid a Fournoi firing box from 0600Z to 1500Z on 8 November, still live this morning, with Irakleio 1408\/26 wrapping the same box to 1600 UTC. Dedicated 1342\/26 tells the bridge not to cross the Drapano polygon from 0600Z to 1600Z on 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 November. This morning\u2019s dedicated 201\/26 tells the bridge to avoid a Zakynthos Ionian box 0630\u20130730 UTC each of those same mornings, plus 0930\u20131045 UTC on 9, 10 and 12 November and 1045\u20131200 UTC on 11 November, cancel 130830 UTC 13 November. This morning\u2019s other dedicated file, Irakleio 1409\/26, tells the bridge to avoid a Saronic Plateia box 0400\u20131700 UTC on 9 November and again on 16 November, cancel 1800 UTC 16 November. Dedicated 1336\/26 still tells the bridge to give NG SURVEYOR a wide berth on a 21-point South Aegean line with no printed end. Dedicated 1411\/26 still tells the bridge that Abeille Marengo is on a 2 NM east-Med cable track through 6 March 2027. A passage plan that only plotted Fournoi, or that treated 081600 UTC 8 November as an all-clear for Greek waters, has not budgeted Zakynthos and Plateia tomorrow morning and has not budgeted Drapano from 0600Z. Charterers asking whether \u201cthe Ionian is closed for firing until 13 November\u201d will not be answered by this file. What arrived is a five-day Zakynthos serial in short UTC windows, not a 24-hour Ionian shutdown and not a Saronic rewrite.<\/p>\n
Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Kyllini and Katakolo remain open on this text. 201\/26 does not print a harbour-master closure, a pilot-boarding amendment, or a VHF working channel for the range. Hulls that would otherwise have cut the west-Zakynthos face inside 37-38 N to 36-53 N, 019-58 E to 020-59 E in the printed hours need a coasting inside the east wall, a west-about outside 019-58 E, or a transit outside the hour groups. Do not invent a 24-hour closure. Do not invent a 2 NM halo around 37-20 N 020-30 E. Plot the four corners. Stay out of the polygon in the printed hours. Report actual range activity, an unlit hull, or a close-quarters situation to JRCC Piraeus and to the company security officer. Logging 201\/26 is not a substitute for a sighting report. The 130830 UTC 13 November cancel is one hour after the last 0630\u20130730 window. Do not occupy the box at 0745 UTC on 13 November because \u201cthe 0730 window has closed.\u201d Wait for 0830 UTC on the Kerkyra kill, then treat the serial as past unless a later NAVWARN extends it.<\/p>\n
The split hours are the operational content a night-order book has to get right. 0630\u20130730 UTC is common to all five mornings. 0930\u20131045 UTC is not. It is printed for 9, 10 and 12 November only. 11 November prints 1045\u20131200 UTC instead of 0930\u20131045. 13 November prints only the 0630\u20130730 hour, then kills at 0830 UTC. A passage plan that treats every morning 9\u201313 November as 0630\u20131200 UTC has over-read three short windows into a six-hour block. A passage plan that treats 11 November as 0930\u20131045 because \u201cthe mid-morning serial is standard\u201d has used the wrong second window. Give 0630\u20130730 every day. Give 0930\u20131045 on 9, 10 and 12 only. Give 1045\u20131200 on 11 only. Give no second window on 13. Then kill at 130830 UTC.<\/p>\n
Keep the dedicated files on their own lines. 1343\/26 remains Saturday night\u2019s dedicated Fournoi firing box, 080600Z\u2013081500Z 8 November, still live this morning through 1500Z, Irakleio 1408\/26 wrap to 1600 UTC. 1342\/26 remains Saturday morning\u2019s dedicated Drapano FORACS box, 9\u201313 November, 0600Z\u20131600Z, eight points around 35-27 N 024-20 E. 1409\/26 is the other dedicated file on this 0330 UTC Sunday desk: Plateia, 9 and 16 November, 0400\u20131700 UTC. 1336\/26 remains Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated NG SURVEYOR South Aegean geophysical line from 5 November with no printed end. 1411\/26 remains Saturday afternoon\u2019s dedicated Abeille Marengo 2 NM cable track through 6 March 2027. 0169\/26 remains Monday 4 November\u2019s dedicated Britoil Centurion Central Mediterranean track through 15 February 2027. 0168\/26 remains weekly group 44 through 092359 UTC 9 November. 1338\/26, 1339\/26 and 1351\/26 remain unused unlit lights. 1345\/26, 1347\/26 and 1350\/26 remain wrap. Last night\u2019s dedicated 198-26 remains the Khor Fakkan bulk-carrier Advisory. Friday night\u2019s dedicated 197-26 remains the Khasab tanker waterline explosion. Friday night\u2019s dedicated 432\/26 remains the southern-Gulf container through 082359 UTC 8 November. Friday morning\u2019s dedicated 431\/26 remains the Fujairah jack-up through 132359 UTC 13 November. Saturday afternoon\u2019s dedicated 799\/26 remains the Varna port-and-road windows on 10 and 13 November. IMO remains 129 \/ 25 as at 6 November. UKMTO still ends at 198-26 on the Advisory line and at 197-26 on the Attack line. NAVAREA IX still ends at 433\/26 as the in-force list atop dedicated 432\/26. Official Cyprus 345\/26 remains unused as dedicated. NAVAREA III 0170\/26 remains unused as dedicated. Do not recast 8 November morning as a Zakynthos exclusion zone, as a 1343 rewrite, as a 1342 Ionian conversion, as a 1409 reprint, or as a completed 0168 weekly-list rewrite.<\/p>\n
Regulas Shipping will keep lining Kerkyra 201\/26 against Saturday night\u2019s dedicated 1343\/26 and against Saturday morning\u2019s dedicated 1342\/26 so operators can treat Sunday morning\u2019s Ionian tape as a 9\u201313 November Zakynthos live-firing box in split UTC windows, not as a Fournoi rewrite, a Drapano FORACS conversion, or a Zakynthos port closure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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