What’s the status of Strait of Hormuz after US-Iran talks?
Oil tankers continued to transit the strait in both directions, but many turned off their transponders over the weekend after Iran's military declared Hormuz closed once again.
WASHINGTON — Commercial shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz picked up on Monday after the US and Iran sent conflicting messages about the waterway’s closure.
The Guyana-flagged tanker Nichola entered the strait laden with crude oil on Monday, bound for Iraq’s Khor al-Zubair terminal at Basra, according to open-source tracking data published by maritime data firm Kpler.
Heading in the other direction, the Curacao-flagged tanker Lumina Ocean and the Guinea-flagged Sea Ace both turned south after transiting the strait while laden with crude and headed for Khor Fakkan in the United Arab Emirates, according to published AIS tracking data.
Roughly a dozen additional oil tankers also appeared to cross the strait in both directions since Sunday after turning off their AIS transponders. At least 71 transits were made by all types of vessels between June 19 and 21, according to the data aggregator site MarineTraffic.
