{"id":239807,"date":"2026-08-07T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239807\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:10:10","slug":"hormuz-traffic-slows-to-a-trickle-as-full-reopening-remains-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239807\/","title":{"rendered":"Hormuz traffic slows to a trickle as full reopening remains uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s state oil marketer SOMO offered discounts of close to $30 a barrel for Basrah Heavy and Basrah Medium crude to customers for August loading.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, about 130 to 140 ships would transit the strait before Iran closed the waterway after the US-Israeli war began on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>A proposed deal between Iran and Oman to give Tehran control over ships entering the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/shipping\/us-sanctions-and-insurance-rules-threaten-to-sink-proposed-hormuz-pact\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">is not easily workable<\/a> because of US sanctions and restrictive insurance clauses on payments, industry sources said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 26 vessels transited the Bab el-Mandeb strait on the Red Sea, up from 19 a day before, Kpler data showed. LSEG counted 28 vessels, using a different tracking system and methodology.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Siyi Liu in Singapore; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s state oil marketer SOMO offered discounts of close to $30 a barrel for Basrah Heavy and Basrah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,94,1738,181,39,101],"class_list":["post-239807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-mena","tag-oman","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117054159180607671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239807","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=239807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}