{"id":104546,"date":"2026-05-08T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/104546\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:09:36","slug":"sea-captains-go-dark-to-maintain-persian-gulf-trade-trickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/104546\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Captains Go Dark to Maintain Persian Gulf Trade Trickle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Captains are sailing dark through the Strait of Hormuz to maintain a trickle of commerce despite the double blockade imposed by Iran and the US. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-07\/adnoc-s-lng-tankers-go-dark-to-get-gas-shipments-through-hormuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Shipping data shows <\/a>at least two liquified natural gas tankers have exited since the war began. Overnight, a French <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-07\/french-container-ship-makes-rare-crossing-of-strait-of-hormuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">containership sailed through<\/a>. All three vessels appear to have temporarily powered down transponders \u2014 known as going dark \u2014 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-06\/adnoc-appears-to-export-second-lng-shipment-through-hormuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">evade detection<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The movements buoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-06\/stocks-bonds-rally-on-hopes-iran-war-nearing-end-markets-wrap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">investor sentiments<\/a> as the US awaits Iran\u2019s response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-07\/us-iran-deliberate-peace-deal-with-nuclear-breakthrough-distant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">its latest proposal to open<\/a> the Strait. Tensions continue to run high throughout the region after a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-06\/israeli-army-carries-out-first-strike-on-beirut-since-ceasefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Israeli strike on Lebanon\u2019s capital<\/a>. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian today reported a rare meeting with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, describing his encounter to state media as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-07\/iran-s-president-says-he-had-meeting-with-injured-supreme-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">direct and frank<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captains are sailing dark through the Strait of Hormuz to maintain a trickle of commerce despite the double&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[328,3219,54,3199,34,36266,39,55,36265,56,36],"class_list":["post-104546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-business","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-europe","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-iran","tag-monaco","tag-persian-gulf","tag-russia","tag-startups","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116541008292809919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}