Separately, at the Bab el-Mandeb strait, traffic slowed slightly on Thursday compared with the previous two days.
Commodity ships transiting the Bab el-Mandeb totalled 23, compared with 34 on each of the previous two days, Kpler data showed, of which 16 ships entered and seven exited.
Out of the seven exits, two were Suezmax tankers – the Stoic Warrior and the Dokos – carrying crude oil bound for Vietnam and India respectively, the data showed.
No very large crude carriers or liquefied natural gas tankers passed through the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Thursday. Vessels that sail through the waterways with transponders turned off do not feature in the data.
(Reporting by Trixie Yap; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Christopher Cushing)