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ConditionNowWasHow sure
Matters nowDaily crossingscommodity vessels, as reportedNow: The three Hormuz transits on Tuesday were below the 10-day moving average of about 15 vessels.23 SepWas: Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz on 31 August had five confirmed crossings, down 50 percent from 10 a day earlier, according to maritime data firm Kpler.5 SepHow sure: One report so far
Matters nowAttacks on shipsNow: Ships in the Strait of Hormuz continue to be targeted by Iran.29 SepWas: A cargo vessel was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.14 SepHow sure: Reported separately by 2 outlets
Matters nowOfficial noticesfirst-handNow: UKMTO / JMIC advisory notes: speaks for 01 october; NAVAREA IX navigational warnings: speaks for 1 Oct 2026read 3 OctWas: no earlier report on fileHow sure: First-hand notice
Worth knowingReopening the straittalksNow: President Donald Trump rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.26 SepWas: Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.3 SepHow sure: 20 separate reports (23 outlets repeating them)
Worth knowingRed Sea routethe other way outNow: Houthis backed by Iran have launched an offensive along the Red Sea coast and struck Saudi Arabia, including airports and oil infrastructure.29 SepWas: Pro-Iran Houthi forces completed a week-long offensive that gave them effective control over all of Yemen's Red Sea shore.16 SepHow sure: One report so far
Worth knowingEscorted passagesunder US protectionNow: More than 2,000 commercial ships transited the Strait of Hormuz under US protection in the past two months, according to US Central Command.20 SepWas: no earlier report on fileHow sure: One report so far
UnclearWar-risk premiumsNow: War-risk insurance premiums for Hormuz voyages are running between 6% and 9%.24 SepWas: Hormuz premiums have risen to as much as 40-60 times prewar levels.4 SepHow sure: One report so far

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Set aside for this chair: Official notices

Real every now, was, date and source: claims_hormuz.json rows and hormuz.json primary documentsExample the condition names and each chair’s tier: the layer that will group claims into conditions is not built yet, so this grouping was made by hand

GET https://sigb.ai/api/desk/maritime?chair=ship-operator&expand=board.where-from

{
  "schema": "sb.desk.v1",
  "desk": "maritime",
  "chair": "ship-operator",
  "ledgerComputedAt": "2026-10-03T00:20:25+00:00",
  "board": [
    {
      "condition": "Daily crossings",
      "now": "The three Hormuz transits on Tuesday were below the 10-day moving average of about 15 vessels.",
      "nowAt": "23 Sep",
      "was": "Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz on 31 August had five confirmed crossings, down 50 percent from 10 a day earlier, according to maritime data firm Kpler.",
      "tier": "matters-now",
      "tierLabel": "Matters now",
      "tierState": "example"
    },
    {
      "condition": "Reopening the strait",
      "now": "President Donald Trump rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.",
      "nowAt": "26 Sep",
      "was": "Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.",
      "tier": "worth-knowing",
      "tierLabel": "Worth knowing",
      "tierState": "example"
    },
    {
      "condition": "Attacks on ships",
      "now": "Ships in the Strait of Hormuz continue to be targeted by Iran.",
      "nowAt": "29 Sep",
      "was": "A cargo vessel was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.",
      "tier": "matters-now",
      "tierLabel": "Matters now",
      "tierState": "example"
    }
  ],
  "since": {
    "day": "2026-10-01",
    "newClaims": 38,
    "retired": 108,
    "recordIn": 8,
    "recordOut": 8
  },
  "ledger": {
    "claims": 1598,
    "attributedViews": 428,
    "retired": 113
  },
  "notCovered": [
    "bab-el-mandeb",
    "gulf-of-oman",
    "ras-tanura",
    "bandar-abbas"
  ]
}

Example request shape: this endpoint is not live yet. The values are this page’s real rows; tierState says the tiers are an example.

GET https://sigb.ai/api/desk/maritime/board/cross/where-from?expand=+1

{
  "level": "where from",
  "label": "2 reports",
  "children": [
    {
      "level": "assertion",
      "label": "Now: One report so far",
      "children": {
        "count": 1,
        "unfold": "expand=+1"
      }
    },
    {
      "level": "assertion",
      "label": "Was: One report so far",
      "children": {
        "count": 1,
        "unfold": "expand=+1"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Each level folds below one step; ask for one more with expand=+1, down to the article link.

Since you last looked

Measured against the newest day in the ledger, 1 Oct. This page does not yet know when you last visited.

WhatNewChanged or replacedNote
Claims in the Hormuz ledgerNew: 38Changed or replaced: 108first seen on 1 Oct; replaced counts claims set aside since then, each kept on file with its reason
Published Hormuz recordNew: 8Changed or replaced: 8claims in and out as the 7-day window moved
Records on this desk not freshNew: 4Changed or replaced: –Persian Gulf (since 20 Sep), Kharg Island (since 2 Oct), Fujairah (since 20 Sep), Yanbu (since 20 Sep); where a record is not fresh, a zero elsewhere means we could not see

Real every count: claims_hormuz.json firstSeen and retired, hormuz.json changeLog, each subject record’s currency

The last 31 days

Events

Claims a day
peak 123

1 Sep: 4 claims2 Sep: no claims3 Sep: 123 claims4 Sep: 56 claims5 Sep: 32 claims6 Sep: 46 claims7 Sep: 67 claims8 Sep: 58 claims9 Sep: 117 claims10 Sep: 49 claims11 Sep: 64 claims12 Sep: 36 claims13 Sep: 30 claims14 Sep: 43 claims15 Sep: 54 claims16 Sep: 28 claims17 Sep: 65 claims18 Sep: 63 claims19 Sep: 12 claims20 Sep: 20 claims21 Sep: 49 claims22 Sep: 77 claims23 Sep: 65 claims24 Sep: 62 claims25 Sep: 67 claims26 Sep: 48 claims27 Sep: 52 claims28 Sep: 59 claims29 Sep: 68 claims30 Sep: 46 claims1 Oct: 38 claims

Hatched bars: claims first seen that day in the Hormuz ledger. Dashed empty slots: no claims on 2 Sep. Numbered squares match the events below. A documents-a-day row will join this chart when the corpus counts are published with the site.

Real bars, events, dates and report counts: claims_hormuz.jsonExample which events are listed: a hand-picked selection of notable claims

What we read, and what we couldn’t

PlaceRecordPublished claimsHow fresh
Strait of HormuzRecord: record kept, fullPublished claims: 4How fresh: current, newest 3 Oct
Red SeaRecord: record kept, minimalPublished claims: 1How fresh: current, newest 2 Oct
YemenRecord: record kept, standardPublished claims: 4How fresh: current, newest 3 Oct
Bab el-MandebRecord: not covered yetPublished claims: noneHow fresh: no record to be fresh
Gulf of OmanRecord: not covered yetPublished claims: noneHow fresh: no record to be fresh
Persian GulfRecord: record kept, minimalPublished claims: 0How fresh: not fresh since 20 Sep
Kharg IslandRecord: record kept, minimalPublished claims: 0How fresh: not fresh since 2 Oct
FujairahRecord: record kept, minimalPublished claims: 0How fresh: not fresh since 20 Sep
YanbuRecord: record kept, minimalPublished claims: 0How fresh: not fresh since 20 Sep
Ras TanuraRecord: not covered yetPublished claims: noneHow fresh: no record to be fresh
Bandar AbbasRecord: not covered yetPublished claims: noneHow fresh: no record to be fresh
Suez CanalRecord: record kept, minimalPublished claims: 0How fresh: current, newest 2 Oct

Key: record kept and current · record kept, not fresh · not covered yet. The words in each row say the same thing.

Couldn’t read

this window
2647 articles archived by our sweeps between 2026-08-31 and 2026-10-02 — secondary press; primary maritime and government feeds were not wired during this window.
claims_hormuz.json, its own note
first-hand
Corroboration & context: the newest item is 878 days old (it speaks for 081538Z MAY 2024), so it adds nothing current.
hormuz.json primary documents
Persian Gulf
This record is no longer current: coverage ended 2026-09-20 when the subject was retired.
record: persian-gulf.json
Kharg Island
This record is no longer current: coverage ended 2026-10-02 when the subject was retired.
record: kharg-island.json
Fujairah
This record is no longer current: coverage ended 2026-09-20 when the subject was retired.
record: fujairah.json
Yanbu
This record is no longer current: coverage ended 2026-09-20 when the subject was retired.
record: yanbu.json

Read, then set aside

limit
Consensus measures reporting agreement, not reality.
limit
Chains are collapsed by syndication tracing; residual shared-upstream risk remains.
limit
Retroactive: computed 2026-10-03 over the archive, not tracked live.
limit
Receipt gate: 45 extracted claim(s) excluded.
limit
Relative-anchor supersession: 77 claim(s) that described themselves as the most recent/last-known fact were retired because a claim from the SAME reporting thread describes a later instance of the same subject.
limit
Domain-competence gate: 1920 kernel claim(s) and 325 frame(s) excluded.
limit
Semantic-dome membership: 5349 kernel claim(s) and 1392 frame(s) were source-faithful but failed typed-signature membership and are excluded.
limit
Extraction coverage: rebuilt mechanically from the extraction cache; 2583 of 2647 articles had been read, the other 64 await the next live extraction.
limit
3 kernel claim(s) published in the prior ledger were not re-read by this mechanical rebuild; with no exact words on file they are retained, not shown.
limit
An item is published only when it is RECEIPTED: the outlet's own source link AND the source's exact words (verbatim: a literal span of the stored document, offsets into it, content-addressed by docId). The claim text is the extracted proposition and is never a quote. Anything else is UNRECEIPTED: retained, counted here by reason, never shown; every published count is computed from receipted items only.
claims
113 claims are kept on file as set aside, each with the reason.

claims_hormuz.json, its honesty notes

Real records and freshness: the maintained subject recordsReal limits and set-aside counts: claims_hormuz.json

Watches on this desk

Strait of Hormuz

record kept, full · ledger built 3 Oct 2026

claims in the ledger: 1,598
attributed views: 428
published claims: 4
first-hand sources: 3

Red Sea and Yemen

the other way out

Red Sea published claims: 1
Yemen published claims: 4
Bab el-Mandeb: no record

Gulf ports

thin records

records kept: 4
not fresh: 4
published claims: 0

Real every count: claims_hormuz.json and the maintained subject recordsExample how places are grouped into Watches

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The last 31 days

Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping.

South Korea is reviewing options including military measures to support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. Central Command said the Kylo was destroyed in the Gulf of Oman

Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed it captured a US unmanned underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz.

Qatar declared force majeure on its exports following Iranian strikes that caused damage to its Ras Laffan LNG export hub.

A cargo vessel was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.

Iran offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US eases military pressure and lifts its blockade on Iranian ports, a senior Iranian official said.

President Donald Trump rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The British government authorized the US to use RAF Fairford to carry out strikes on Iranian missile sites attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy claimed it seized a second US military underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran threatened to attack energy infrastructure across the Middle East if its security isn't guaranteed.