{"id":41721,"date":"2026-03-29T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41721\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:29:06","slug":"two-gas-india-flagged-gas-tankers-crossing-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/41721\/","title":{"rendered":"Two gas India-flagged gas tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI \u2014 Two liquefied petroleum gas tankers, BW Elm and BW Tyr, are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/25\/world-news\/certain-oil-tankers-are-making-it-safely-through-strait-of-hormuz-heres-how\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crossing the \u200bStrait of Hormuz<\/a> bound for India, according to \u200cship tracking data from LSEG and Kpler.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/27\/world-news\/heres-how-the-us-military-could-reopen-the-strait-of-hormuz-from-boots-on-the-ground-to-air-assaults\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> US-Israeli\u00a0war against Iran<\/a>\u00a0has all but halted shipping through the strait, but <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/24\/world-news\/iran-says-non-hostile-ships-can-pass-through-strait-of-hormuz-as-trump-teases-major-prize\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran \u200bsaid this week that \u201cnon-hostile vessels\u201d may\u00a0transit the waterway\u00a0<\/a>\u200bif they coordinate with Iranian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The two India-flagged \u2060vessels have crossed the Gulf area and are in \u200bthe eastern Strait of Hormuz, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50367107;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38930489\" width=\"887\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cargo-ship-gulf-near-strait-124662827.jpg\" alt=\"A cargo ship in the Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.\" class=\"wp-image-38930489\"  \/>A cargo ship seen near the Strait of Hormuz on March 11, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>India is \u200bgradually moving its stranded LPG cargoes out from the strait, with four LPG tankers moved so far \u2014\u00a0Shivalik, Nanda Devi,\u00a0Pine Gas, and Jag \u200bVasant.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, 20 Indian-flagged ships including five \u200bLPG carriers were stranded in the Gulf, Rajesh Kumar Sinha, special \u200csecretary \u2060in the federal shipping ministry, said.<\/p>\n<p>LPG carriers Jag Vikram, Green Asha and Green Sanvi are still in the western Strait of Hormuz, LSEG data show.<\/p>\n<p>India, the world\u2019s second-largest \u200bLPG importer, \u200bis battling its\u00a0worst \u2060gas crisis\u00a0in decades, with the government cutting supplies for industries to shield \u200bhouseholds from any shortage of cooking gas.<\/p>\n<p>The country \u200bconsumed \u206033.15 million metric tons of LPG, or cooking gas, last year, with imports accounting for about 60% of demand. \u2060About \u200b90% of those imports came \u200bfrom the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>India is also loading LPG onto its\u00a0empty vessels\u00a0stranded \u200bin the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI \u2014 Two liquefied petroleum gas tankers, BW Elm and BW Tyr, are crossing the \u200bStrait of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[328,897,102,138,34,212,101,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-41721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gas","10":"tag-hormuz","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-operation-epic-fury","14":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","15":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116313886835070403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41721","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=41721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}