The Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA; hereafter the authority), established by Iran to manage traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, on the 14th (local time) released a list showing that the number of vessels subject to sanctions for violating Strait of Hormuz transit regulations had increased to 77.
The authority said that the vessels on the list will face restrictive measures, including fines, detention, or confiscation, when they pass through the strait in the future. It also warned that other vessels cooperating with these sanctioned targets will be added to the list.
The authority first released 45 vessels as sanction targets on the 24th of last month for violating strait transit regulations. Since then, it has continued to add vessels that violate the regulations to the list. Among the vessels subject to sanctions are many owned and operated by Korea's Sinokor Merchant Marine.
According to preliminary ship-tracking data released that day, the number of merchant vessels that passed through the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend plummeted to single digits per day. It fell well below the recent 10-day average of 14 vessels per day. Vessels that may have turned off their Automatic Identification System (AIS) transceivers to avoid location tracking while passing through the strait were excluded from the statistics.