{"id":38734,"date":"2026-03-27T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/38734\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:48:09","slug":"chinas-cosco-ships-appear-to-abort-strait-of-hormuz-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/38734\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s COSCO ships appear to abort Strait of Hormuz transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran tensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Marine Traffic data shows two container vessels making U-turn back to Persian Gulf<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20260327 clsc indian ocean\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The CSCL Indian Ocean near Germany in 2016: The vessel was one of two COSCO-related ships that turned back after approaching the Strait of Hormuz. (picture alliance via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Two large container ships from China&#8217;s state-owned COSCO group appeared to have abandoned attempts to exit the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, data from tracking service Marine Traffic shows, underscoring the treacherous conditions the Iran war continues to create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran tensions Marine Traffic data shows two container vessels making U-turn back to Persian Gulf The CSCL Indian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[16921,16920,16919,3705,102,39,4739,1219,8647],"class_list":{"0":"post-38734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-abort","9":"tag-appear","10":"tag-chinas","11":"tag-cosco","12":"tag-hormuz","13":"tag-persian-gulf","14":"tag-ships","15":"tag-strait","16":"tag-transit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116301457283737466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38734","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=38734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}