{"id":136530,"date":"2026-05-29T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/136530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:43:28","slug":"iran-war-a-quarter-of-large-oil-tankers-trapped-by-conflict-have-escaped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/136530\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran War: A Quarter of Large Oil Tankers Trapped by Conflict Have Escaped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Roughly one-quarter of the non-Iranian large oil tankers trapped inside the Persian Gulf at the outbreak of the Iran war have managed to slip out in a slow, stealthy trickle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Twenty-nine of the 109 bigger vessels, those capable of hauling 700,000 barrels or more, which were stranded when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-08\/strait-of-hormuz-how-iran-is-tightening-grip-as-trump-s-project-freedom-falters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> was effectively shuttered after the conflict erupted on Feb. 28 have now crossed the chokepoint, shipping data compiled by Bloomberg show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roughly one-quarter of the non-Iranian large oil tankers trapped inside the Persian Gulf at the outbreak of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[126,25011,3400,3199,3190,34,207,35402,39,50,272,36],"class_list":["post-136530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-chevron-corp","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-exports","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-industries","tag-iran","tag-markets","tag-mike-wirth","tag-persian-gulf","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116658870854837420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136530","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=136530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}