{"id":44647,"date":"2026-03-31T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/44647\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:11:14","slug":"3-chinese-ships-exit-strait-of-hormuz-as-petrochina-stresses-operations-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/44647\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Chinese ships exit Strait of Hormuz as PetroChina stresses operations stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As global energy supplies are put under strain by Iranian disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/petrochina?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">state-owned Chinese oil giant PetroChina<\/a> has said its overall operations remain stable because most of its imports do not pass through the strait.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, the company\u2019s investment operations in the Middle East had been \u201cimpacted to varying degrees\u201d, as crude oil and natural gas imported through the strait accounted for about 10 per cent of its total operating volume, PetroChina chairman Dai Houliang said at its annual results conference in Hong Kong on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe situation in the Middle East has exceeded many people\u2019s expectations since late February,\u201d he said, noting that self-produced resources, imports from outside the Middle East, and long-term contract supplies accounted for more than 90 per cent of PetroChina\u2019s oil and gas volume.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular news conference in Beijing on Tuesday that following coordination with \u201crelevant parties\u201d, three Chinese vessels \u2013 which she did not name \u2013 had recently transited the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mao expressed gratitude for the assistance \u201cprovided by the relevant parties\u201d and called for a ceasefire in the Gulf region \u201cas soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Vessel tracking data showed that two Chinese container ships transited the strait on Monday, while Iran solidified its control over the strategic chokepoint by legislating transit fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As global energy supplies are put under strain by Iranian disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[262,18630,9107,5103,38,359,102,138,34,361,18628,37,18629,18627,101,7890,9344,153],"class_list":["post-44647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-china","tag-china-central-television","tag-chinese","tag-cosco-shipping","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf","tag-hormuz","tag-india","tag-iran","tag-iranian","tag-iranian-rials","tag-israel","tag-myvessel","tag-petrochina","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-thailand","tag-the-wall-street-journal","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116323489338435744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44647","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=44647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}