Greek-operated tanker is among few oil vessels to cross the Strait of Hormuz

Ships and boats successful the Strait of Hormuz disconnected the seashore of Musandam, Oman, connected April 20, 2026. [Reuters]

A Greek-operated tanker has sailed from the Gulf to India aft crossing the Strait ‌of Hormuz successful 1 of the fewer crude sailings done the waterway this week, vessel tracking information showed connected Friday.

The US-Israeli war connected Iran has led to the effectual closure of the strait, stranding hundreds of ships and starring to unprecedented disruption of vigor supplies.

The Liberia-flagged suezmax tanker Karolos, which tin transportation a maximum of 1 cardinal barrels of oil, was sailing towards the western India larboard of Sikka connected Friday aft crossing the Strait of Hormuz connected May ⁠14, according to investigation from Kpler.

The vessel was astatine maximum load aft calling astatine Basra lipid terminal connected May 10, Kpler investigation showed.

Satellite investigation from information analytics specialists SynMax besides recovered the vessel’s draught had accrued connected May 14, indicating it had taken connected cargo.

Karolos’ Greek-based manager Dynacom, which has been 1 of the salient Greek players to vessel lipid done the strait aft the war began connected February 28, did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Separately, a Panama-flagged crude lipid tanker managed by Japanese refining radical Eneos passed done the strait, ship-tracking information from LSEG showed connected Thursday.

Few crossings done the strait

Before the war connected Iran began, the Strait of Hormuz was the conduit for 20% of the world’s vigor supplies, equating to 125 ‌to ⁠140 regular passages.

Nine ships crossed into the Gulf of Oman via Hormuz implicit the past 24 hours and were chiefly small cargo oregon adust bulk ships bound for Iran, according to SynMax data.

Seven abstracted ships – including two lipid products tankers from Gulf ports – near Hormuz chiefly for locations connected the different broadside of the Gulf astir Oman, the information showed.

Traffic passing done the waterway was astir 10 vessels connected ⁠Thursday.

Iran’s state TV said connected Friday that 30 ships crossed the strait connected Thursday successful some directions and that fig was “set to accelerate.”

US President Donald Trump said his patience with Iran was moving retired and that Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed during their talks successful Beijing ⁠that Tehran indispensable reopen the strait.

Concerns person mounted implicit the vessels and their unit trapped successful the strait. The Marshall Islands shipping registry, among the world’s biggest emblem states, said this week that menace levels, opens caller tab for merchant vessels remained astatine their highest ⁠levels successful the region.

“More than 20,000 seafarers stay trapped wrong the Strait of Hormuz, facing fearfulness and uncertainty, chopped disconnected from their families, and successful galore cases moving abbreviated of food, water and fuel,” starring maritime union, the International Transport Workers’ Federation said separately this week. [Reuters]