Yacht agency · One point of contact
Agents, authorities and naval reporting bodies. Departure to arrival.
You stay in command. We run everything around the passage.
50+ movements via Suez, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden · West Africa · Malacca Strait · high-latitude expedition
Evidence that we keep our finger on the pulse in the waters where our network operates. Select an area to move the map and filter the feed; tap an update to fly to its stated position.
Markers are plotted only where a source states a position; area-wide notices frame their stated area. Navigational chart: Esri Ocean bathymetry with OpenSeaMap seamarks: buoys, lights and traffic separation schemes.
Abridged by us from attributed official and public sources.
A tanker reported an attack by an RPG from a small boat 78NM northeast of Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia. The incident resulted in damage to the vessel's aft port quarter. Crew are reported safe, and authorities are investigating.
A tanker was struck by an unknown projectile 68NM northeast of Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia. All crew are reported safe and have been evacuated, with no environmental impact reported. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report suspicious activity.
The Larsskär ylempi leading mark in the Gulf of Finland is reported unlit. This aid to navigation serves the Sköldvikin väylä fairway. Vessels transiting this fairway should not rely on the affected aid and must verify their positions by other means.
A 50,000 tonne Container ship was struck by an unknown projectile whilst conducting an inbound transit in the Strait of Hormuz. The vessel sustained minor damage and reported no casualties, continuing its passage. Authorities are investigating the incident.
A 19,000-tonne container ship was struck by an unknown projectile whilst transiting outbound in the Strait of Hormuz. The vessel sustained minor damage and reported no casualties, continuing its passage. Authorities are investigating the incident.
UKMTO has received a report of a tanker being struck by an unknown projectile within the Strait of Hormuz. Authorities are currently investigating the incident. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity.
UKMTO has received a report of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz where a container ship was struck by an unknown projectile. Authorities are investigating the event. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity.
A Products Tanker was struck by an unknown projectile whilst conducting an outbound transit in the Strait of Hormuz. Authorities are investigating this incident. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO.
A container vessel was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting inbound through the Strait of Hormuz. This incident was reported to UKMTO time-late by a verified source. Authorities are investigating the event.
A crude oil tanker was struck by an unknown projectile whilst transiting outbound in the Strait of Hormuz. Authorities are investigating the incident. Vessels are advised to transit with caution in the area.
An outbound tanker was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on 11 October 2026. The crew are safe, but the environmental impact is unknown. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report suspicious activity.
UKMTO has received a report of an incident involving a tanker near Sohar anchorage, Oman. The status of the crew, damage, and environmental impact are currently unknown. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO.
Analyst-reviewed route and context briefings are a separate product. Open the intelligence desk.
The core offering
In difficult waters the difference between a clean passage and a stalled one is rarely paperwork. It is whether someone already knows the right person, in the right office, in the right port. That is what we hold, and we put the whole thing together for you.
Vetted agents in every port on the route, appointed and briefed by us to one standard, held to timings and reconciled afterwards. Not a directory: people we work with repeatedly.
Direct lines into maritime administrations, port authorities, customs and immigration, and embassies where permissions have to be asked for properly and in advance.
Working contact with naval reporting bodies and coordination centres covering high-risk and security-sensitive waters, so reporting, posture and escort questions are answered by the people who actually decide.
You deal with us throughout. We hold the whole passage together across all of the above, and remain reachable while the yacht is under way.
Track record
The network is not theoretical. It was built passage by passage, in the corridors where getting a yacht through depends on who answers the phone.
50+
Suez · Red Sea · Gulf of Aden
Vessel movements facilitated through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, including periods of elevated threat and disrupted transit scheduling.
Many
West Africa
Passages and port calls supported down the West African seaboard and through the Gulf of Guinea, where agent quality and pre-arrival permissions decide the outcome.
Many
Malacca & South East Asia
Transits of the Malacca Strait and the Singapore approaches, with reporting, bunkers, crew changes and onward clearances handled end to end.
Many
High-latitude expedition
Expedition voyages in high latitudes, where permits, ice information, remote logistics and search-and-rescue coordination have to be arranged long before departure.
Vessel names, owners and itineraries are not published. Client references can be provided on request at the appropriate point in a discussion.
How we engage and what it costs →Scope
The network is the offering. This is the work it is put to on a passage.
Route options assessed against season, range, insurance conditions and the practical realities of each stop. Fuel, weather windows and arrival timing are planned together, not separately.
Direct contact with port authorities, maritime administrations, navies and, where required, embassies. We ask the questions in the form each authority expects, in advance of arrival.
We appoint and manage local agents on your behalf, brief them to one standard, hold them to timings and check their work before the yacht arrives.
Suez and Panama documentation, tonnage measurement, pilotage, convoy scheduling and the sequence in which each paper has to be lodged.
Consolidated reporting for the corridor you are entering: current posture, reporting schemes, standoff practice and what other vessels are actually doing. Sourced and time-stamped.
Bunkers with quality reporting, spares clearance, provisioning, visas, flights and transfers arranged around the yacht's actual timing rather than a fixed itinerary.
Access to yards, riding technicians, class and survey attendance at the ports where the work can realistically be done, and honest advice where it cannot.
A single number during passage. Medical, mechanical, weather and security events are handled by the same people who planned the voyage, with pre-agreed escalation.
Process
Yacht, range, crew, insurance position and hard dates. Twenty minutes on a call is usually enough to start.
Legs, bunkers, weather windows, formalities per port and the decisions that must be taken before departure rather than at sea.
Agents appointed and briefed, authorities notified, permits and transit bookings lodged, fuel, spares and crew changes scheduled against the plan.
The passage is tracked. When conditions or posture change, options come to you with the operational consequences already worked out.
Arrival formalities completed, accounts reconciled against the original scope, written passage record for the yacht's files.
Coverage
These are the corridors with live public source coverage behind them right now. An area appears here only once a source is ingesting relevant content for it.
Intelligence
Automated operational updates
Public and official source material is read continuously, and each item is abridged into our own plain-English update: what changed, where, from when, and what it means for a yacht. The original notice is always linked as evidence. No manual curation, and nothing is published unless the substance was actually extracted.
Reviewed briefings
Route and corridor briefings written and reviewed by an analyst for a specific passage: current posture, reporting schemes, standoff practice, documentation timing and the decisions that follow from them. A separate, deliberate product.
Open the intelligence desk →Sister company · Yacht.Delivery
Most owners and captains keep command and use us purely for shore-side passage support. When that is not the plan, Yacht.Delivery can supply a professional captain and delivery crew and execute the voyage, while The Yachting Agent continues to run agents, authorities, formalities, fuel and logistics. Two companies, one operational picture.
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There is no form to fill in. Send the outline by email, or message the desk directly, and we come back with the operational picture: what the voyage requires, where the timing pressure sits, which documents drive the schedule and what should be decided before you leave.
Talk to us directly
Send the outline: yacht, rough position, where she needs to be and when. If the yacht is under way, or the question is time-critical, use WhatsApp or the 24/7 line.
For a yacht in immediate danger, contact the relevant naval reporting authority and rescue coordination centre first, then call us.