{"id":258290,"date":"2026-08-20T21:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/258290\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:59:26","slug":"shipping-traffic-through-strait-of-hormuz-declines-amid-iran-us-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/258290\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping Traffic Through Strait of Hormuz Declines Amid Iran-US Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary shipping data indicates that vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has declined in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera reported on Thursday, August 20, that the downward trend in maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has continued amid a deadlock in negotiations between Iran and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, data from maritime traffic tracking company Kpler shows that vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz did not increase on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kpler data indicates that only nine commercial cargo vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as US President Donald Trump has claimed in recent days that the Strait of Hormuz is open and under US control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preliminary shipping data indicates that vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has declined in recent days. Al&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[2504,102,6476,101,51,153,68689],"class_list":["post-258290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-control","tag-hormuz","tag-negotiations","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-control"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117130085149512261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258290","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=258290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}