Iran war widens as Hormuz, Saudi oil routes face new pressure
DIPLOMATIC efforts to end the nearly seven-month Iran war continued at the United Nations on Tuesday as the conflict widened across the region, with Tehran warning of further attacks, the Strait of Hormuz remaining a key pressure point and Iran-align...
On Tuesday, the Strait of Hormuz saw a decline in the number of cargo ships passing through, according to preliminary shipping data released on Wednesday. Three vessels made the journey, a decrease from four ships the previous day and below the ten-day moving average of approximately 15, as reported by Kpler. The three vessels that transited the Strait of Hormuz were all exiting the waterway, with one of them being a Panamax tanker.
However, a ballast liquefied natural gas tanker, Al Mafyar, was spotted re-entering the strait on Tuesday, after its last recorded sighting outside the waterway on September 19. The Strait of Hormuz accounted for one-fifth of the world's oil and gas before the ongoing US-Iran conflict. Meanwhile, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, another key maritime chokepoint located at the southwest tip of Yemen, saw a lower number of vessels on Tuesday compared to the recent average.
Out of the 22 commodity ships that transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, 14 were heading towards the Red Sea and 8 towards the Gulf of Aden, falling short of the average of around 26 ships that typically use the route over the past ten days.
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