{
  "id": 1822856,
  "title": "China’s largest oil shippers abandon Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab as Middle East conflict deepens",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/chinas-largest-oil-shippers-abandon-hormuz-bab-al-mandab-as-middle",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T22:27:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/chinas-largest-oil-shippers-abandon-hormuz-bab-al-mandab-as-middle-east-conflict-deepens-1.500645036"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Two of China’s largest state-owned oil shipping companies have halted all tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab strait, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday, citing industry executives, vessel trackers and a ship broker. The decision by COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation and China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) marks one of the clearest signals yet that the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}