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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas confirmed that merchant vessels are queuing for naval escorts through the southern Red Sea because Operation Aspides lacks enough frigates to meet demand.
Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority has warned it will blacklist charterers that pressure vessels into transiting the Strait of Hormuz without required approvals, as its non-compliance list grows past 80 ships.
Puntland’s maritime police force stormed and freed the hijacked, US-sanctioned tanker Sibu 1 off Somalia’s coast, ending a five-week hijacking with all 20 crew members unharmed.
An Indian seafarer died after the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged bulk carrier Cape Dao was struck by an unknown projectile and abandoned near Oman’s Musandam Governorate, marking a fresh casualty in the escalating conflict around the Strait of Hormuz.
Maritime security firm Ambrey reports that aerial and surface drones have surpassed sea mines as the dominant floating hazard threatening merchant shipping in the Black Sea.
Two vessels hijacked by Somali pirates have been freed in the past week, but four tankers remain in pirate hands as EU naval forces describe the current wave of attacks as the worst since 2013.
A pirate action group boarded the Greek-owned, Saint Vincent and Grenadines-flagged bulker Glamor in the Gulf of Aden before being unable to seize control of the vessel.
Turkish authorities have detained nine crew members of the tanker Alsu and continue searching for ten missing sailors from the cargo ship Tugberk Imamoglu, which sank within minutes after the two vessels collided in the Sea of Marmara.
An analysis by Danish Shipping of International Maritime Bureau data shows piracy-related incidents off Somalia have reached their highest level in a decade, with 13 attacks recorded in the first seven months of 2026 alone.
Armed pirates hijacked the Cameroon-flagged cargo ship M/V Lutuf off Somalia’s Puntland coast this week, taking its ten-member crew hostage in the latest sign of a sharp resurgence in Horn of Africa piracy.
