Only Two Ships Navigate Hormuz in 2 Days
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz was indefinitely closed to all vessel traffic, as military tensions between Washington and Tehran entered a dangerous new phase.
The IRGC issued a stark warning to any vessel considering entry, stating that approaching the strait would be regarded as "cooperation with the enemy," while ordering all ships to remain anchored within the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman until further notice.
Data compiled by a reporter from shipping analytics firm Kpler revealed that a petroleum tanker identified as the Well Sail, carrying 353,000 barrels of petroleum products, transited the strait from Iran to the UAE on June 10.
Prior to the IRGC's formal closure announcement on Thursday, a second vessel — an empty petroleum tanker named the Lucky Chem — completed a crossing en route from Pakistan to Iraq, entering the Gulf before the shutdown order took effect.
The Lucky Chem made its passage via the so-called "Iranian route," a corridor that runs through Iranian territorial waters within the strait.
With just those two transits recorded over a two-day span, daily commercial vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz plunged to its lowest level in nearly five weeks — a threshold previously breached only on May 7, when a single vessel made the crossing.
By comparison, six commercial vessels — five of them fully laden — had passed through the strait as recently as June 9, underscoring how swiftly the situation deteriorated.
Overall vessel traffic through the waterway has collapsed to more than 90% below pre-war levels, a staggering drop from the roughly 130 commercial ships that transited the strait on a daily basis before the conflict erupted — a volume that made it one of the most strategically vital chokepoints in global trade.
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