Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait, the key maritime chokepoints in the Gulf, reduced significantly on Wednesday from the previous day, Reuters cited shipping data showed.
Just two vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz, including a Panama-flagged coal-laden carrier entering the waterway and another commodity Marshall Islands-flagged vessel exiting, shipping data from Kpler showed, down from eight vessels a day earlier.
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Roughly 130 to 140 ships would typically transit the waterway before the US-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28 and Iran responded by closing the strait.
In the Bab Al-Mandeb, only one commodity vessel, a Bahamas-flagged dry bulk carrier, crossed the strait on Wednesday, Kpler data showed, down from 20 the previous day.
Yemeni Armed Forces said on Wednesday they had launched a missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker off the coast of the kingdom’s Red Sea port city of Yanbu and another missile attack on a Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
Source: Reuters (edited by Al-Manar)