{"id":69616,"date":"2026-04-17T06:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/69616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:54:09","slug":"exclusive-hong-kong-flagged-oil-tanker-passes-through-strait-of-hormuz-in-test-of-us-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/69616\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker passes through Strait of Hormuz in test of US blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An oil tanker sailing under the flag of Hong Kong has passed through the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Gulf of Oman in what appears to be a test of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3349933\/us-blockade-strait-hormuz-easy-enough-them-do-what-cost?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the US blockade<\/a> targeting vessels entering or leaving Iranian ports, according to a maritime data firm.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tanker, AVA 6, departed from a port in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, Beijing time. It passed through the Strait of Hormuz sometime between 4am and 2pm on Thursday, according to data from Mingkun Technology, a Chinese maritime information provider based in Chongqing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The transit of the tanker was also recorded by vessel-tracking website MarineTraffic, which showed the oil and chemical tanker AVA 6 was in the Gulf of Oman as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-16lwkd e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776408849_502_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">Trump announces US blockade of Strait of Hormuz, warns Iranians of being \u2018blown to hell\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Trump announces US blockade of Strait of Hormuz, warns Iranians of being \u2018blown to hell\u2019<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The registered owner of AVA 6 is the Hong Kong-based Standwill Shipping Ltd, according to shipping data and software firm MagicPort.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Standwill Shipping could not be reached for comment. It is not clear if the vessel is operated or managed by other companies, which is not uncommon in shipping.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tracking company noted that it was still unclear whether the Hong Kong-flagged AVA 6 had breached or challenged the US blockade, despite successfully passing through the strait.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe blockade area is located roughly in the Gulf of Oman, so it cannot be said that the ship passed through the blockade,\u201d the Chongqing-based company said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to the Chinese tracking company, of the six ships monitored entering or departing the Strait of Hormuz within the 24-hour period until 5pm Thursday, the AVA 6 was the only one under a Chinese-linked flag. The AVA 6 was one of three ships leaving the strait. The other two carried flags of the Bahamas and Comoros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An oil tanker sailing under the flag of Hong Kong has passed through the Strait of Hormuz and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[25975,383,2656,25972,38,444,4331,102,15018,15808,25974,650,39,25973,101,272],"class_list":{"0":"post-69616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-ava","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-central-command","11":"tag-chongqing","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-gulf-of-oman","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-hormuz","16":"tag-islamabad","17":"tag-marinetraffic","18":"tag-mingkun-technology","19":"tag-pakistan","20":"tag-persian-gulf","21":"tag-rich-starry","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","23":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69616","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=69616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}