The Marshall Islands-flagged Sarv Shakti \u2014 laden with around 45,000 tons of LPG, commonly used as cooking fuel \u2014 appeared to move into the Gulf of Oman after sailing past Iran\u2019s Larak and Qeshm islands on Saturday, according to ship-tracking data.<\/p>\n
The very large gas carrier has previously made runs between the Persian Gulf and Indian ports <\/a>and is broadcasting that it\u2019s heading to the country and has Indian crew, a safety measure frequently adopted by ships since the Iran war began.<\/p>\n State-run Indian Oil Corp. was listed as the buyer of the cargo, according to a shipping document seen by Bloomberg. IOC didn\u2019t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n Sarv Shakti\u2019s journey marks the first observed passage by an India-linked tanker<\/a> since a weeks-old US blockade of ships tied to Iran began, pushing transits through Hormuz back down to almost zero. It\u2019s one of the largest carriers to make the outbound crossing since a\u00a0chaotic weekend\u00a0last month, when the strait was\u00a0briefly opened\u00a0and then rapidly closed.<\/p>\n As the world\u2019s third-largest oil importer and the second-biggest consumer of LPG, India has scrambled to fill the supply gap left by Middle East producers. Acute shortages of the cooking fuel have triggered panic, queues and\u00a0pared-down menus.<\/p>\n New Delhi has focused on the safe passage of LPG carriers since the US and Israel began strikes on Iran at the end of February, even ordering its own ports to prioritize these tankers for berthing and discharging, while\u00a0cranking up\u00a0domestic production.<\/p>\n Momentum was disrupted, however, by the April weekend when Iran initially said the thoroughfare was restored, only for its military to shoot at ships attempting to cross, forcing many to U-turn. One India-linked vessel, Aframax-sized crude tanker Desh Garima slipped through, though only by switching off its transponder signals.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since then, traffic has returned to a near-standstill in Hormuz.<\/p>\n India<\/a> has managed to move eight LPG vessels through Hormuz during the conflict after bilateral negotiations with Tehran, and has been working on other exits.<\/p>\n India has also raised domestic production of LPG by 60% to 54,000 tons in order to cope. Its consumption has dropped by 10,000 tons to 80,000 tons daily, Oil Minister Hardeep Puri said Friday.<\/p>\n Sarv Shakti entered the Persian Gulf in early February. It received its cargo via a ship-to-ship transfer off Dubai, but Bloomberg News could not immediately identify the exact origin of the cargo.<\/p>\n A full transit of Hormuz can take about 10 to 14 hours. Electronic interference in the region can falsify the apparent position of a ship. Some vessels may also spoof, or go dark<\/a>, during transits, in order to hide their tracks.<\/p>\n Dubai-based Foresight Group Services Ltd. is listed as the carrier\u2019s manager, with its owner Zhe Yin Shan Zhou No. 4 Tianjin that shares the same address, on database Equasis. 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