Shipping traffic through Hormuz remains mostly halted
Shipping traffic through Hormuz remains mostly halted Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains mostly halted, with shipping data showing only three ships passing the waterway in the past 24 hours. Despite a pause in hostilities, Iran maintained its restriction over the strait - through which a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas passes - as a response to a US blockade of Iranian ports. The Ean Spir products tanker sailed through Hormuz on Tuesday after previously calling at an Iraqi port, ship tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform showed.