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ADNOC LNG tanker crosses Strait of Hormuz for first time since Iran war, ship-tracking data shows
The loaded Mubaraz would be the first LNG tanker to cross the strait since the war began, with global gas prices already rising.
- On Monday, the Mubaraz, a 136,357-cubic-meter liquefied natural gas tanker managed by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company , reappeared off India's west coast after successfully traversing the Strait of Hormuz.
- Tensions between the U.S. and Iran closed the waterway to LNG shipments for two months, stranding UAE and Qatar supplies and driving Asian imports below 600,000 tons, the lowest since 2020.
- Vessels in the Persian Gulf frequently employ evasive tactics, including disabling transponders, to avoid targeting; the Mubaraz stopped signaling on March 31 before reappearing off India.
- The tanker now signals a Chinese port as its destination, yet analyst Alex Froley of ICIS cautioned that "one tanker crossing would not necessarily guarantee that more could follow."
- Markets view the transit as a hopeful sign, marking the first loaded tanker to cross Hormuz since the war began February 28, offering the first potential signal of de-escalation.
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Arizona Daily SunFirst fully loaded LNG tanker since war began appears to have crossed the strait
Liquefied natural gas transit has been effectively halted. A ship managed by Abu Dhabi’s state oil company managed to cross, said Kpler, a maritime data firm.
First Tanker Crosses the Strait of Hormuz
New York Times: “A ship managed by Adnoc, Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, appears to have been the first fully loaded liquefied natural gas tanker to cross the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Iran war in late February, according to Kpler, a global maritime data firm.”
The passage of a vessel carrying liquefied natural gas marks a timid return of traffic to the Strait, almost paralysed since the beginning of the war between Israel, the United States and Iran.
First LNG tanker transits Strait of Hormuz since Iran war began
The first laden liquefied natural gas ship to transit the Strait of Hormuz since the US-Israeli war with Iran started at the end of February has reportedly exited the chokepoint and is now off the west coast of India.What happened: Citing ship-tracking data, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the Mubaraz tanker, sailing under the Liberian flag, passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
First tanker filled with LNG pass through Strait of Hormuz
ALBAWABA - A ship fully loaded with liquefied natural gas (LNG) has left the Gulf and gone through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the conflict in the Middle East, marine tracking firm Kpler announced Tuesday...
Since Iran has had control over the Strait of Ormuz, due to the conflict that it has been fighting against the United States for two months now, few ships, like this LNG tanker, have managed to cross this passage...
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