Navigation in the Strait of Hormuz declined with the exchange of strikes between America and Iran
Navigation traffic via The Strait of Hormuzhas sharply increased since Wednesday, especially through the UN-backed Omani route, after ships were attacked earlier this week, coinciding with the exchange of new strikes by the United States and Iran.
Traffic through the strategic waterway reached its highest levels since the outbreak of war, following a truce agreed between the two parties in mid-June, although it remained at about a third of the levels recorded in peacetime.
Ship transit
but declined. It appears that the pace of recovery has stopped, as only six commodity tankers crossed the waterway today, Thursday, compared to 21 tankers of this type that crossed it on Wednesday.
The only day that witnessed less transit traffic since the armistice between the United States and Iran was June 28, when only 19 commodity tankers crossed, one day after a tanker was attacked off the coast of the Sultanate of Oman.
Most of the ships that crossed since Wednesday either turned off their transponders or turned off their transponders. There, or to use the northern Iranian route, which requires approval from Tehran for passage.
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