{"id":82146,"date":"2026-04-24T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/82146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:04:11","slug":"strait-of-hormuz-traffic-slows-to-a-trickle-amid-us-iran-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/82146\/","title":{"rendered":"Strait of Hormuz traffic slows to a trickle amid US-Iran tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the meantime, shipping will be restricted to using routes close to Iran and Oman. Due to their confined nature, these routes cannot safely accommodate the normal volumes of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz,&#8221; Larsen added.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian-flagged oil products tanker Niki, which is subject to US sanctions, was among the few vessels that sailed out of the strait with no destination listed, Kpler analysis and tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform showed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear what would happen if it continued to sail further east towards the blockade line imposed by the US Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;In the meantime, shipping will be restricted to using routes close to Iran and Oman. Due to their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[54,537,1713,34,94,1738,1739,1737,39,101,51,736],"class_list":{"0":"post-82146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-persian-gulf","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-hapag-lloyd","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-mena","14":"tag-middle-east-conflicts","15":"tag-north-america","16":"tag-persian-gulf","17":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us-navy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116461244476412453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82146","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=82146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}