Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz continued on Monday at a faster pace than before the agreement between Iran and the United States, according to maritime monitoring platforms, despite Tehran’s announcement on Saturday of a new closure of this strategic passage.
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Monday at 11 a.m. GMT, the Kpler maritime monitoring platform already counted 15 crossings of raw materials transport vessels during the morning. A level comparable to Thursday and Saturday, two days when traffic was close to 30 crossings during the day.
At least five other ships, whose crossing had not yet been confirmed by Kpler, appeared to have also passed the strait, according to their AIS signals visible on the MarineTraffic platform.
The Strait of Hormuz reopened last week following a deal between Iran and the United States meant to end the war in the Middle East, but Tehran announced the closure of the strait on Saturday in response to Israel’s attacks in Lebanon.
Since then, Tehran and Washington have agreed on mechanisms aimed at stopping the clashes in Lebanon and securing the Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world’s oil usually circulates. On this point, they agreed on a “line of communication”, to “avoid incidents and communication problems”, according to the Qatari and Pakistani mediators.
“Despite the uncertainty surrounding the United States/Iran negotiations, the Strait of Hormuz remained operational during the weekend,” noted Monday Nikos Pothitakis, press relations manager at Kpler, on
