{"id":22565,"date":"2026-03-17T00:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/22565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T00:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:16:29","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-marks-first-full-days-pause-as-no-ships-cross-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/22565\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz marks first full day\u2019s pause as no ships cross amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Maritime tracking data showed that no ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, marking the first full day without any confirmed commercial traffic in either direction since February 28, when the US and Israel began military strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Crossings dropped to zero, below the previous seven-day average of 2.57 daily transits, according to maritime analytics firm Windward. Although no vessels entered the waterway that day, about 400 ships sailed in the Gulf of Oman on Friday, it said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe concentration suggests that many vessels are holding position outside the Strait of Hormuz, rather than dispersing globally, potentially reflecting expectations that the corridor may reopen,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Several ships linked to Pakistan and Turkey were confirmed to have passed through the corridor on Friday under apparent authorisation or special circumstances, Windward said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Global shipping routes are shifting amid the turmoil in the Middle East. Traffic around the Cape of Good Hope increased, flows through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait between Yemen and the Horn of Africa remained stable, and transits through the Suez Canal dropped sharply, the firm said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTaken together, the current maritime picture is defined by visible paralysis inside the Strait of Hormuz, conditional exceptions for selected vessels, continued global re-routing and widening disruption across energy infrastructure, logistics and maritime policy frameworks,\u201d Windward said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maritime tracking data showed that no ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, marking the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11215,1872,11214,9679,444,1713,102,11210,37,11213,11212,11211,1718,49,101,1720],"class_list":{"0":"post-22565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-bab-el-mandeb-strait","9":"tag-brent-crude","10":"tag-cape-of-good-hope","11":"tag-chinese-yuan","12":"tag-gulf-of-oman","13":"tag-hapag-lloyd","14":"tag-hormuz","15":"tag-horn-of-africa","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-kpler-marinetraffic","18":"tag-liberia","19":"tag-lloyds-list-intelligence","20":"tag-maersk","21":"tag-middle-east","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","23":"tag-suez-canal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116241641131427373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22565","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=22565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}