Maintenance in progress

between may 1 and june 25 2026, over 60% of india-bound tankers transiting the strait of hormuz disabled their automatic identification system transponders — 45 of 73 tracked vessels went dark in coordinated fashion to reduce exposure during active conflict. simultaneously, supertanker traffic physically resumed on june 30–july 1, with vessels carrying roughly 11 million barrels transiting despite ongoing iranian revolutionary guard patrols and prior merchant ship attacks. two contradictory behaviors — concealment and resumption — operating in the same chokepoint at the same time.

maritime tracking, persian gulf regional reporting