Maritime vessels continued to move through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, though at a much lower rate, a day after Iran announced that it had closed the strategic waterway to shipping.
Transits through the strait dropped to 12 today, down from more than 21 on Saturday, according to maritime risk analytics firm Windward. The recovery in shipping traffic that began on Thursday stalled within 24 hours of the Iranian announcement.
The current traffic profile "resembles the late‑blockade baseline more than a functioning open strait," Windward posted on X. "Iran’s re-closure of Hormuz is already measurable in the data."
Iran said on Saturday that it had shut the vital shipping route again, a move that would disrupt a critical corridor for 20% of the world’s crude and liquified natural gas shipments. Iran tied the decision to what Tehran described as ceasefire breaches by the US and Israel, along with ongoing Israeli military activity in Lebanon.
Lloyd’s List reported that commercial traffic continued to move through the Strait over the weekend. US Central Command said in an X post on Saturday that 55 merchant ships had transited the strait and that vessels moved more than 17 million barrels of oil to global markets.
