The UN's 58 vessels: who has acted on them, and when

The counts here are a snapshot. The disagreements page recomputes the gaps every night, with the vessels behind each number.

The United Nations Security Council’s 1718 Committee, which oversees sanctions on North Korea, has designated 58 vessels. It is the one vessel list in this database that every other authority can be measured against, because it is short, published as a single document, and its most recent designation is dated 16 October 2018.

The list

The Committee’s designated vessels list records designation dates between 21 June 2017 and 16 October 2018: 22 hulls on 21 June 2017, 4 on 3 October 2017, 4 on 28 December 2017, 25 on 30 March 2018 and 3 on 16 October 2018.

Who lists them

Authority	Of the 58	Dates on the record
Australia	58	no listing date stated; entries last updated 28 August 2026
United States (OFAC)	51	30 July 2014 to 30 August 2019; 23 on 23 February 2018
Switzerland	37	22 on 18 May 2016, 15 on 3 April 2018
European Union	36	no EU date stated
United Kingdom	36	3 October 2017 to 30 March 2018; 28 on 30 March 2018

Every one of the 58 is listed by at least two authorities besides the UN. One hull is listed by two of them, 28 by three, 13 by four and 16 by five, so no vessel on the UN’s list stands on the UN’s word alone.

Three things in the table

Australia states no listing date. Its consolidated list has a “Control Date” column, which DFAT’s own guide to the list defines as “the last date the sanction entry was updated or edited on the Consolidated List”. All 58 entries carry 28 August 2026, so that is the day they were edited, and the list does not say when Australia first acted on these hulls.

Some acted before the UN did. OFAC has 11 of these hulls dated 30 July 2014 and Switzerland has 22 dated 18 May 2016, both earlier than the UN’s designations of the same IMO numbers. Those authorities listed the hulls under their own programmes first.

The EU’s share carries the UN’s date, not its own. The EU carries 36 of the 58 in Annex XIV of Regulation (EU) 2017/1509, in two parts: vessels subject to a seizure and vessels prohibited entry into ports. The annex prints the Committee’s date of designation and no EU date of application, so this site shows the EU listing date as not stated. The other 22 do not appear in the latest consolidated text we read, dated 17 December 2025.

Two corrections to our own numbers

Australia’s date. Until 20 September 2026 this site treated Australia’s Control Date as a listing date. It reported all 58 of these vessels as listed by Australia on 28 August 2026, and put that at the top of the home page’s latest actions. It was wrong: DFAT’s list has no listing date. Australian listings now show none, the update date is quoted in the entry, and the methodology page says so. Every other source we read was checked the same day and uses a real listing or designation date.

The EU’s share. Until 20 September 2026 this site did not read Annex XIV. It showed the EU as listing none of the UN’s vessels: the vessel pages for these hulls said “It is not listed by the European Union”, and the comparison “listed by the UN, not by the EU” would have read 58 of 58.

That figure described this site’s coverage, not the EU’s law, which is why the disagreements page carries a note about which EU instruments are read. With Annex XIV added the same comparison reads 22 of 58. The EU count on the home page rose from 672 to 708 hulls at the same time.

What this does and does not show

It shows how many of the UN’s vessels each authority lists and the dates its list gives. It does not show why the counts differ. Timing, legal basis, the way a resolution is transposed into national or EU law and the date of the consolidated text read here can each produce a gap, and none of them is a judgement about a vessel. Only the authority whose law binds you can say what a listing requires of you.