{"id":106440,"date":"2026-05-10T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/106440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:26:20","slug":"qatari-lng-tanker-headed-to-pakistan-attempts-strait-of-hormuz-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/106440\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatari LNG tanker headed to Pakistan attempts Strait of Hormuz transit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Qatari tanker carrying liquefied natural gas is attempting to sail through<\/a> the Strait of Hormuz and is heading towards a Pakistani port, according to ship-tracking data. <\/p>\n

Al \u200bKharaitiyat \u200bleft Ras Laffan in Qatar last week, is bound for Port Qasim in \u200bPakistan and is expected to arrive on Monday, Vessel Finder shows. <\/p>\n

If it reaches its destination, it will be the first Qatari LNG tanker to successfully transit the waterway since it was effectively closed after the start of the Iran war on February 28. Two Qatari LNG tankers, Rasheeda and Al Daayen, aborted an attempted crossing on April 6 after failing to obtain clearance from Iranian authorities. Qatar is the world\u2019s second-largest exporter of LNG, with Asian markets among its main buyers.<\/p>\n

The Al \u200bKharaitiyat is currently sailing under the Marshall Islands flag. <\/p>\n

Sources told Reuters that Iran had approved the latest shipment from Qatar and Pakistan under \u200ca government-to-government deal. Islamabad, which has been mediating an end to the war, is struggling with an energy crisis. <\/p>\n

The strait, a key chokepoint through which about a fifth of energy exports normally passes, has been a flashpoint in the US-Iran conflict. Tehran effectively blocked the waterway once the war began, with the US last month imposing its own blockade on Iranian ships. <\/p>\n

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Strait of Hormuz must never be held hostage, Dr Al Jaber says<\/p>\n

The global gas market lost about a fifth of supply in March due to war-related disruption, the International Energy Agency said last month. LNG production fell by 8 per cent, or four billion cubic metres, year on year in March, causing worldwide supplies to drop by 20 per cent, the Paris-based<\/a> agency said in its quarterly report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe duration of the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is a key uncertainty that will affect global gas demand in 2026,\u201d the IEA said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iranian missile strikes<\/a> on Qatar also knocked out about 17 per cent of its LNG export capacity with the disruption expected to last three to five years, QatarEnergy chief executive Saad Al Kaabi previously said. The damages, centred on the Ras Laffan industrial <\/a>site, are expected to cost Qatar<\/a> about $20 billion annually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Qatari tanker carrying liquefied natural gas is attempting to sail through the Strait of Hormuz and is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1140,897,102,34,271,274,273,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-106440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-business-team","9":"tag-gas","10":"tag-hormuz","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-qatar","13":"tag-standard","14":"tag-story","15":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116549804597870000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106440","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=106440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}