US’s costly military operations fail to restore steady passage through key waterway
A tanker carrying crude oil from the United Arab Emirates is believed to have transited the Strait of Hormuz with its Automatic Identification System transponder turned off. © Reuters
YUTA KOGA, JUNNOSUKE KOBARA and TAKEHIKO HAMA
CAIRO/WASHINGTON/DUBAI — More than 160 oil tankers carrying roughly 160 million barrels of oil and petroleum products remain in the Persian Gulf, data from Kpler shows, underscoring the tight control Iran maintains over the key chokepoint.