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At a Glance Operational Overview The June 1–4 reporting period highlights three parallel developments: Iranian exports are collapsing under blockade pressure, enforcement against sanctioned vessels is becoming more kinetic, and maritime control activity across Hormuz remains elevated. Iranian crude and condensate exports fell to 186,000 barrels per day in May, down 84% from April and…

At a Glance The Screening Model Customs Was Built On No Longer Holds For most of the last twenty years, customs enforcement has operated on a screening model. Cargo manifests arrive ahead of port call, risk scores are calculated against the declared origin, shipper, and route, and anomalies trigger inspection. The model worked while the…

At a Glance From Monitoring to Prevention For most of the past decade, cable protection meant monitoring. Operators watched the screen, generated alerts when a vessel of concern appeared near a cable, and responded after the fact when damage occurred.  The threat landscape has shifted in ways that existing tools and protocols were not designed…

At a Glance A Parallel Enforcement Track Takes Shape in the Atlantic On the enforcement side, pressure on both Iranian and Russian shadow tonnage intensified across the same reporting cycle. The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a new Operation Economic Fury action targeting Iranian maritime extortion, expanding the cumulative enforcement track against Iranian shadow…