NEW DELHI, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, the key maritime chokepoints in the Gulf, reduced significantly on Wednesday from the previous day, shipping data showed.
Just two vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz, including a Panama-flagged coal-laden carrier entering the waterway and another commodity Marshall Islands-flagged vessel exiting, shipping data from Kpler showed, down from eight vessels a day earlier.
Article origin: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/gulf-shipping-traffic-down-after-houthis-say-they-attacked-saudi-tanker
Original author: Pesha Magid
