Notes and analysis
What changed, and what it means. Weekly posts summarise the previous week's listings and removals; analysis pieces look at patterns across the whole database. Every figure is pinned to the date it was computed.
- For a while this site showed 28 August 2026 as the latest listing, from Australia. It was the day 58 entries were edited, not listed. A correction, and what the last active fortnight actually contained.
- The UN Security Council's 1718 Committee has designated 58 vessels. Every one is listed by at least two other authorities in this data, and the EU carries 36. Two corrections to this site's own numbers came out of checking.
- Ukraine's catalogue holds 857 vessels and none of them is sanctioned by it. Keeping that distinction is most of the work in building an honest vessel index.
- Across 2,087 vessel records, the striking number is not the overlap between allies. It is how much of the fleet only one authority has acted on.
- Every one of the 672 vessels the EU currently lists sits in Annex XLII, a port and services ban. None is in the EU's financial sanctions file. That distinction changes what the listing does.
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