Millions of barrels of oil continued to flow through the Strait of Hormuz this weekend, even after Iran claimed to have closed the waterway again, as Washington and Tehran offer contrasting narratives over the status of the world’s most important shipping chokepoint.
Three laden oil supertankers, with a combined transport capacity of 6 million barrels, emitted signals as they were sailing through the channel on Saturday via a route that hugs Oman’s coast, ship-tracking shows. One of them subsequently resumed sending automated signals early on Sunday after it had reached the Gulf of Oman.
