{"id":258795,"date":"2026-08-21T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/258795\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:05:07","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-traffic-halves-in-a-day-as-us-iran-peace-talks-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/258795\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz traffic halves in a day as US-Iran peace talks stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Separately, at the Bab el-Mandeb strait, traffic slowed slightly on Thursday compared with the previous two days.<\/p>\n<p>Commodity ships transiting the Bab el-Mandeb totalled 23, compared with 34 on each of the previous two days, Kpler data showed, of which 16 ships entered and seven exited.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the seven exits, two were Suezmax tankers &#8211; the Stoic Warrior and the Dokos &#8211; carrying crude oil bound for Vietnam and India respectively, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p>No very large crude carriers or liquefied natural gas tankers passed through the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Thursday. Vessels that sail through the waterways with transponders turned off do not feature in the data.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Trixie Yap; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Christopher Cushing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Separately, at the Bab el-Mandeb strait, traffic slowed slightly on Thursday compared with the previous two days. Commodity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[11215,34,1738,1737,39,101,51],"class_list":["post-258795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-bab-el-mandeb-strait","tag-iran","tag-mena","tag-north-america","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117132939944564488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258795","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=258795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}