{"id":35203,"date":"2026-03-25T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/35203\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:31:13","slug":"china-owned-vessel-secures-rare-strait-of-hormuz-transit-as-iran-war-grinds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/35203\/","title":{"rendered":"China-owned vessel secures rare Strait of Hormuz transit as Iran war grinds on"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second Chinese-owned liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier has transited the Strait of Hormuz since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran<\/a>, according to industry sources and vessel-tracking data, amid conflicting claims over access to the vital trade corridor.Tehran has largely blocked the strategic waterway in retaliation for Washington and Tel Aviv\u2019s strikes, causing widespread disruption to global shipping \u2013 though Iranian officials have recently promised safe passage<\/a> for vessels not linked to the country\u2019s \u201cenemies\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Chinese-owned Lucky Gas passed through the strait on Tuesday, navigating near Larak Island in Iranian waters before reaching Oman\u2019s port of Sohar on Wednesday morning. The Panama-flagged ship is owned and operated by Shunhang Ship Management, a Hong Kong-registered company, according to data platform VesselsValue.<\/p>\n

A source said Lucky Gas was the first Chinese-owned LPG carrier to transit the strait since Tehran proposed a \u201csafe corridor\u201d in mid-March, and only the second to pass through the waterway since the war began.<\/p>\n

The first LPG vessel, Danuta I, transited the strait around March 6, according to the source. The Palau-flagged ship, owned by a Chinese company, is currently heading to southeastern China\u2019s Fujian province after passing through the Strait of Malacca near Singapore on Wednesday, according to the source and the shipping tracker MarineTraffic.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cosco Shipping Lines, the container arm of China\u2019s maritime giant Cosco Shipping, resumed bookings to Middle Eastern ports on Wednesday, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second Chinese-owned liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier has transited the Strait of Hormuz since the outbreak of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[14627,15651,4061,15813,4331,102,3358,34,15812,15806,1425,13179,15811,15808,49,181,6456,39,15807,1876,101,10772,69,7890,11440,15810,15809],"class_list":{"0":"post-35203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-alaeddin-boroujerdi","9":"tag-bangchak","10":"tag-danuta-i","11":"tag-fujian-province","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-hormuz","14":"tag-indian-ocean","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-iranian-embassy-in-india","17":"tag-irinn","18":"tag-islamic-republic-of-iran","19":"tag-larak-island","20":"tag-lucky-gas","21":"tag-marinetraffic","22":"tag-middle-east","23":"tag-oman","24":"tag-panama","25":"tag-persian-gulf","26":"tag-shunhang-ship-management","27":"tag-singapore","28":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","29":"tag-strait-of-malacca","30":"tag-tehran","31":"tag-thailand","32":"tag-us-israeli-war","33":"tag-vesselsvalue","34":"tag-zhoushan-xinchi-ship-management"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116289122037349916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35203","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=35203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}