{"id":63684,"date":"2026-04-12T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/63684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:08:09","slug":"vlccs-exit-persian-gulf-via-strait-of-hormuz-as-us-iran-talks-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/63684\/","title":{"rendered":"VLCCs exit Persian Gulf via Strait of Hormuz as US-Iran talks begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empty vessels sailing into gulf<\/p>\n<p>Three other empty tankers &#8211; Mombasa B, Agios Fanourios I and Shalamar &#8211; were sailing in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday to enter the gulf and load oil, LSEG data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Malta-flagged VLCC Agios Fanourios I signalled that it is heading to Iraq to load Basrah crude for Vietnam, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Mediterranean Maritime, which manages Agios Fanourios I and CMB Tech, the manager for Liberia-flagged VLCC Mombasa B, did not immediately respond to requests for comment outside office hours.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan National Shipping, which manages the tanker Shalamar, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Florence Tan in Singapore, Danial Azhar and Rozanna Latiff in Kuala Lumpur; additional reporting by Saad Sayeed in Islamabad; Editing by Jan Harvey, Alexander Smith and Thomas Derpinghaus)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Empty vessels sailing into gulf Three other empty tankers &#8211; Mombasa B, Agios Fanourios I and Shalamar &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[488,262,24088,34,94,1738,1739,39,21682,24087,101,24086],"class_list":{"0":"post-63684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-cmb-tech","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-mena","14":"tag-middle-east-conflicts","15":"tag-persian-gulf","16":"tag-petronas","17":"tag-sinopec","18":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","19":"tag-unipec"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116391896873621960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63684","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=63684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}