Maintenance in progress

the hormuz strait reopened to commercial tanker traffic following a us-iran ceasefire, with three vlcc tankers carrying approximately 5 million barrels of crude beginning to exit. oman established temporary maritime corridors in coordination with the imo, and the un launched a large-scale evacuation for roughly 11,000 seafarers stranded across hundreds of ships in the gulf. the strait had been effectively closed for three months — a global energy chokepoint outage of that duration is structurally unusual; its simultaneous reopening with a political deal, oman mediation, and a large-scale un humanitarian operation signals how acute the bottleneck had become.

gulf maritime and international shipping sources