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Iran has said the Strait of Hormuz is “completely open” for all commercial vessels and will remain so during...
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Pakistan Oil Tanker Makes Rare Entry and Exit Through Hormuz...
posted on: Apr 18, 2026
By Weilun Soon Apr 17, 2026 (Bloomberg) –A Pakistan-flagged tanker that entered the Persian Gulf over the weekend has become the first carrier to exit through the Strait of Hormuz with a crude cargo since a US blockade began on Monday, underscoring just how limited traffic through the vital chokepoint remains. The Shalamar sailed just south of Iran’s Larak island and out into the Gulf of Oman late Thursday with around 450,000 barrels of crude loaded at Das Island in the United Arab Emirates, according to ship-tracking data. The Aframax tanker, only half full, is signaling Karachi as its destination. Transits through the narrow waterway have been mostly in single digits since US and Israeli strikes began at the end of February and, after a weekend spike, they have returned to those low levels. A US Navy blockade now requires shipowners to clear both Iranian and American authorities in order to move...
US-Sanctioned Supertankers Enter Gulf Despite Blockade...
posted on: Apr 18, 2026
By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, April 16 (Reuters) – A second U.S.-sanctioned supertanker has entered the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz, shipping data showed, despite a U.S. blockade on vessels visiting Iranian ports. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the blockade on Sunday after weekend peace talks in Islamabad between the U.S. and Iran failed to reach a deal. The U.S. Central Command said on X that 10 vessels have been turned around and no ships have broken through since the start of the blockade on Monday. Still, Iran’s Fars News Agency said on Wednesday that an Iranian supertanker subject to U.S. sanctions crossed the strait towards Iran’s Imam Khomeini port despite the blockade. Fars did not identify the tanker or give further details of its voyage. The empty Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) RHN entered the Gulf on Wednesday, data from LSEG and Kpler showed. It was not immediately clear where the VLCC, which is capable of carrying 2 million barrels of...
A few tankers and ships are going through the Strait of Hormuz. Here’s the latest traffic...
posted on: Apr 17, 2026
At least nine oil tankers have transited the Strait of Hormuz this week as the U.S. and Iran contest control of the vital sea lane. A big tanker named the RHN entered the strait from the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, according to data from LSEG. The tanker is a very large crude carrier, or VLCC, that can carry about 2 million barrels of oil. It sails under the flag of Curaçao, a Caribbean island, but is owned by a Chinese company. Another VLCC named the Alicia crossed the strait into the Persian Gulf on Tuesday. It was one of at least four tankers of varying sizes that exited or entered the strait yesterday, the data showed. Tanker transits Tuesday were 90% below traffic on Feb. 27, the day before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. Traffic has plunged during the war due to the threat of Iranian attacks....
China told Maersk and MSC to drop Panama port operations, FT reports...
posted on: Apr 17, 2026
April 15 (Reuters) – China has told Danish shipping group Maersk (MAERSKb.CO), opens new tab and Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC Shipping) to cease operating ports on the Panama Canal, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. In a meeting with China’s state planner last month, Maersk and MSC Shipping were told to withdraw from the Balboa and Cristóbal ports immediately, the report said, citing two people familiar with the talks. The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Maersk, MSC Shipping, China’s foreign ministry and state planner did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. Maersk and MSC were told not to “engage in illegal activities that harm the interests of Chinese companies, and to uphold commercial ethics and international rules,” the report said. Panama has granted temporary 18-month concessions to keep the terminals...
World’s largest, China’s first 10,000-ton all-electric smart container vessel delivered...
posted on: Apr 17, 2026
The world’s largest and China’s first 10,000-ton pure electric intelligent container vessel, the Ningyuan Diankun, set sail on Wednesday from the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port bound for the Zhapu Port area in Jiaxing, marking the official start of its commercial operations, and ushering in a new phase of exploration and development for China’s coastal container shipping driven by pure electric power and intelligent navigation, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port told the Global Times in a statement. Developed by Ningbo Ocean Shipping Co, the Ningyuan Diankun measures 127.8 meters in length and 21.6 meters in width, with a carrying capacity of 742 standard containers. The vessel is powered by 10 standardized battery containers with a total storage capacity of about 20,000 kilowatt-hours, equivalent to the combined battery capacity of about 300 household electric vehicles. It is expected to save 580 tons of fuel a year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1,400 tons after being put...
Strait of Hormuz: Why the US and Iran are sailing in very different legal waters...
posted on: Apr 17, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz exists in the eye of the beholder. While everyone agrees that, geographically speaking, it is a strait – a narrow sea passage connecting two places that ships want to go – its political and legal status is rather more complicated. The United States and Iran both eye the strait – a choke point through which 20% of the world’s oil passes – very differently. Washington sees the Strait of Hormuz as exclusively an international waterway, whereas Tehran sees it as part of it territorial waters. It follows that Iran’s toll-charging of ships is seen by the U.S. as illegal. Similarly, U.S. President Donald Trump’s blockade of the passage is a “grave violation” of sovereignty to Iran. As an expert in the law of the sea, I know part of the problem is that the U.S. and Iran are living in two different worlds when it comes to the international...
Sanctioned China tanker turns back to Strait of Hormuz, day after Gulf exit...
posted on: Apr 17, 2026
SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) – The U.S.-sanctioned tanker Rich Starry made its way back to the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday after exiting the Gulf the day before, shipping data showed, failing to break through a U.S. blockade on vessels calling at Iranian ports. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the blockade on Sunday after weekend peace talks in Islamabad between the U.S. and Iran failed to reach a deal. The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here. “During the first 24 hours, no ships made it past the U.S. blockade,” the U.S. Central Command said, opens new tabon X, adding that six vessels complied with directions from U.S. forces to turn around to re-enter an Iranian port. The Chinese-owned tanker was among at least eight ships crossing the waterway on Tuesday, the first day of the U.S. blockade. A U.S. destroyer stopped...
Europe set to copy Egypt’s Suez Canal tolls with £20bn new waterway plan amid Strait of Hormuz tensions...
posted on: Apr 15, 2026
Rising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz have heightened focus on alternative maritime chokepoints, increasing attention on Turkey’s Istanbul Canal. The waterway would run parallel to the Bosphorus Strait, offering Europe a Suez Canal-style shipping route capable of handling around 160 vessels or oil tankers per day. In turn, the project would allow Turkey to potentially monetise transit traffic in a manner similar to Egypt’s Suez Canal and Panama’s interoceanic route. According to Express, the project is estimated to cost £20 billion, with £12 billion allocated to the canal itself and £8 billion for development on either side, and is expected to be completed by 2027. In 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the project as transformative for Turkey’s economy. He said: “Today we are opening a new page in the history of Turkey’s development. We see Canal Istanbul as a project to save the future of Istanbul… to ensure...
Iran Claims to Have Hit an MSC Container Ship in the Mideast...
posted on: Apr 15, 2026
On Saturday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed a drone strike on an MSC container ship at a position in the Gulf region. “A drone struck the vessel . . . linked to the Zionist regime in the Strait of Hormuz; the ship caught fire,” the IRGC claimed in a statement on X, naming the target vessel as the MSC Ishyka. A vessel broadcasting the name MSC Ishyka III – but listed in Equasis as MSC Ishyka (IMO 9154206) – operates on a regional route between India, Africa and the Arabian Gulf. Based on the ship’s most recent AIS signature, MSC Ishyka III is not in the Strait of Hormuz, but at berth in Manama, Bahrain (per Pole Star Global). Like hundreds of other merchant vessels, MSC Ishyka III was trapped inside the Gulf when U.S. forces attacked Iran on February 28, and was at berth in Manama on that date. Her AIS signal disappeared from tracking that...
Two Supertankers Reverse Course After Approaching Strait Of Hormuz As US-Iran Talks Fail...
posted on: Apr 15, 2026
Two empty supertankers, including a Pakistan-flagged vessel, turned back at the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday after reaching close to the key transit point, as talks between the United States and Iran ended without any agreement. Ship-tracking data showed that three very large crude carriers (VLCCs), none directly linked to Iran, began moving towards the strait from the Gulf of Oman late on Saturday. They reached near Iran’s Larak Island early on Sunday, which is seen as a checkpoint for vessels entering the waterway. At this point, the Iraq-bound Agios Fanourios I and Pakistan-flagged Shalamar, which was heading to Das Island in the United Arab Emirates, took a U-turn and moved away from the strait. A third tanker, Mombasa B, continued its journey and passed through the Iran-approved route between Larak and Qeshm islands into the Persian Gulf. The vessel is not currently indicating a clear destination. The exact...
Iran must not charge tolls in Strait of Hormuz, UN maritime chief says...
posted on: Apr 13, 2026
Iran’s bid to charge ships tolls to transit the Strait of Hormuz is illegal and should be rejected by the international community, the head of the global shipping watchdog has said, as uncertainty hangs over the country’s fragile truce with the United States. Iranian authorities have demanded the right to impose tolls on vessels transiting the strait, including after the end of the war. US President Donald Trump has also floated the possibility of a “joint venture” for collecting payments operated by Washington and Tehran. “Countries do not have the right to introduce tools or payments or charges on these straits,” Arsenio Dominguez, the secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization, said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “Any introduction of tolls is something that is against international law,” Dominguez said. “And I will call for anyone not to actually follow and use these kind of services because that’s a precedent that...
Australia Bans Bulk Carrier After 7 Months of Unpaid Crew Wages...
posted on: Apr 13, 2026
Australia’s maritime regulator has issued a stark warning to shipowners after banning a Liberia-flagged bulk carrier for six months over serious breaches of seafarer welfare standards. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) announced it has prohibited the vessel BBG Wuzhou from entering Australian ports or waters until October 4, 2026, following a port state control inspection in Newcastle that uncovered widespread violations of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC). According to AMSA, inspectors identified multiple deficiencies during the boarding, including the underpayment of wages, inadequate food provisions, and a failure to provide free drinking water to crew members—conditions that led authorities to detain the vessel as unseaworthy and substandard. The most serious finding: crew members had gone unpaid for nearly seven months, with outstanding wages totaling AUD $68,994.15. “Seafarers play a critical role in keeping Australia moving, and they deserve to be paid lawfully and fairly,” said AMSA Acting Executive Director of Operations Greg Witherall. “Underpaying...
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