Only two commodity tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the lowest daily number recorded since early May, according to shipping data.
Both vessels entered the Gulf from the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking firm Kpler said. They included one very large gas carrier and one very large crude carrier.
Monday’s total fell sharply below the 10-day daily average of 14 vessels, Kpler data showed on Tuesday.
Preliminary figures from the separate ship-tracking firm Vortexa put Monday’s oil flows through the strategic waterway at five million barrels per day.
The seven-day moving average stood at between six million and seven million barrels per day as of August 23.
