Port Congestion & Maritime Disruption Radar

The current blockade has turned back 135 vessels and disabled four, U.S. CENTCOM says. Reuters also tracked limited Iranian LPG and jet-fuel movements using offshore transfers, while separate vessel attacks continue.

At DGT, 11 vessels were waiting at anchorage and 30,352 container moves remained in the backlog despite a weekly rise in container throughput; the wider Port of Durban had 36 ships waiting.

September Fujairah bunker sales were down 62.9% year on year and nine-month volume was down 58%, with diversions to alternative ports continuing even as some sales recover month on month.

Africa's largest dedicated iron ore export terminal is in a scheduled October 6-21 maintenance outage affecting ship-loading and rail-receipt equipment; the adjacent ore railway has separate maintenance.

The fire-damaged HMM PLATINUM has diverted toward South Africa with around 2,300 containers aboard; salvage is underway and its final refuge berth remains unconfirmed.

Two chemical tankers have been hit near Romania and the Sulina Canal approaches, with seven sailors missing in the latest escalation of the western Black Sea merchant-shipping crisis.