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DAILY SITREP
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DeepDraft SITREP | Hormuz Traffic Falls to May Low: Tanker Turnback Confirms Strait Transit Risk (September 8, 2026)
Commodity-vessel traffic through Hormuz fell to a 10-per-day average, with a Saudi-loaded tanker turned back and no VLCC exits since Wednesday.
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DeepDraft SITREP | Iran Exclusion-Zone Threat Turns Hormuz Transit Into Sanctions-List Risk (September 7, 2026)
Iran’s planned Hormuz exclusion zone turns Strait transit into a sanctions-list, routing and war-risk decision after U.S. strikes disabled three named Iranian crude carriers.
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DeepDraft SITREP | Navigation Warning Issued After Span Asia 39 Loses 46 Containers Off Batangas (September 5, 2026)
Span Asia 39 lost 46 containers off Batangas, prompting a PCG navigation warning and drift-tracking response for coastal traffic near Hamilo Point and Manila approaches.
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DeepDraft SITREP | Black Sea Crude Export Artery Hit: Nefrit Strike Threatens CPC Mooring Repairs Off Novorossiysk (September 4, 2026)
Ukraine’s reported Nefrit strike threatens CPC mooring repairs off Novorossiysk, putting Kazakhstan’s Black Sea crude export route into tanker-loading, laycan and terminal-resilience risk.
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DeepDraft SITREP | SIDR Fatalities Harden Hormuz Risk: Iran Expands Blacklist to 56 Ships as Gulf Transit Confidence Falls (September 3, 2026)
Hormuz AIS silence is controlled visibility, not disappearance, as radar, satellite, RF detection and LRIT still shape vessel exposure and bridge decision-making.
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DeepDraft SITREP | Saudi Crude VLCCs Hit in Hormuz: SIDR and SENEGAL PROSPERITY Put 4 Million Barrels Inside the Strike Zone (September 2, 2026)
SIDR and SENEGAL PROSPERITY were struck outbound through Hormuz with about 4 million barrels of Saudi crude exposed, resetting war-risk and voyage authorization.
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DeepDraft SITREP | Hormuz Tanker Hit by Three Projectiles as U.S. Strikes Larak Mine Launchers (September 1, 2026)
A tanker was hit by three projectiles east of Khasab as U.S. strikes on Larak launchers pushed Hormuz back into war-risk, routing and voyage-authorization files.
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DeepDraft SITREP | FILOJET Ferry Disaster Off Cyprus: Eight Dead, 18 Missing as Crew Detained (August 31, 2026)
FILOJET capsized off Kyrenia with 267 aboard, leaving eight dead and 18 missing as crew detention, SAR response and passenger-vessel safety scrutiny intensify.
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DeepDraft SITREP | Hormuz Mine-Clearance Claim Meets Seven-Vessel Traffic: 400 Ships and 6,000 Seafarers Still Trapped (August 29, 2026)
CENTCOM says Hormuz routes are mine-free, but only seven commodity vessels transited as IMO warns 400 ships and 6,000 seafarers remain trapped.
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DeepDraft SITREP | AL SALAM II Hit in Hormuz as MSC Freezes Novorossiysk Bookings (August 28, 2026)
AL SALAM II was hit in Hormuz as MSC froze Novorossiysk bookings, tightening routing, insurance and charterparty exposure across Gulf and Black Sea trades.