The weekend’s tracker conflict resolves as a coverage gap. One database logs the Suezmax inside the port since Sunday evening; both trackers’ last live position is the 10 August fix in the western Black Sea, in ballast, destination the CPC berth. A ship dark inside Novorossiysk is consistent with the jamming around the port and proves nothing about loading. The only closing fact would be a loaded departure, and none is recorded.
Around her, the stop holds. Sheskharis showed no restart on the fourth day; the CPC consortium’s silence reached day 18; the record rate stood with no newer print. Off Samsun the anchorage has tripled: about 70 ships were holding at anchor against a normal 20 to 25, by Turkish maritime press count, the clearest single number yet for how much tonnage is waiting out the drone war at anchor.
The only closing fact would be a loaded departure, and none is recorded.
Overnight the defence ministry counted 205 drones downed, including over the Black Sea and Azov waters and over Astrakhan region, the node Moscow has named for rerouting grain toward the Caspian. Krasnodar region and Tatarstan were absent from the lists, and no new strike on the export chain was reported through the evening.