{"id":127117,"date":"2026-03-18T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipping.einnews.com\/article\/900261118"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:38:01","slug":"how-many-cargo-ships-are-passing-hormuz-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/how-many-cargo-ships-are-passing-hormuz-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"How many cargo ships are passing Hormuz strait?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just a trickle of cargo ships and tankers has made it through the Strait of Hormuz since Iranian forces blocked the crucial trade route in the Middle East war.<\/p>\n

Here are facts and figures about vessels that have passed through the 167-kilometre (104-mile) strait since the war broke out with US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n

– Shipping near zero –<\/h2>\n

The channel typically sees around 120 daily transits, according to shipping industry intelligence site Lloyd’s List.<\/p>\n

From March 1 to 18, commodities carriers made just 105 crossings, according to analytics firm Kpler — a decrease of more than 95 percent.<\/p>\n

– 60 oil, gas tankers –<\/h2>\n

Sixty of them were oil and gas tankers and of those nearly six out of 10 were loaded, Kpler data showed.<\/p>\n

Three-quarters of the crossings were by ships leaving the Gulf.<\/p>\n

– 35 sanctioned ships –<\/h2>\n

Around a third of the ships transiting the strait were under US, EU or UK sanctions, according to an AFP analysis of passage data.<\/p>\n

Overall 17 of them sailed under an Iranian flag. Of the oil and gas tankers, 47 percent were sanctioned.<\/p>\n

– Oil to China –<\/h2>\n

Natasha Kaneva, a commodities analyst at JPMorgan bank, said in a report released Monday that most of the oil passing through the strait was headed for Asia, principally China.<\/p>\n

Data in the report indicated it was receiving more than a million barrels day — far below the pre-war level of nearly five million.<\/p>\n

– 1.3 mn barrels of Iran oil –<\/h2>\n

Kaneva said overall 98 percent of the observable oil traffic through the strait was Iranian, averaging 1.3 million barrels a day “in early March”.<\/p>\n

A fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas passes through the strait in peacetime.<\/p>\n

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