What happened

Reuters reported, citing ship-tracking data from Kpler, that shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb was little changed on Tuesday (4 August) from the previous day and remained far below pre-war levels. Eight vessels — five tankers and three bulk carriers — transited Hormuz, with six entering and two (a gas carrier and a tanker) exiting; roughly 130 to 140 ships would typically transit the strait before the US-Israeli war on Iran began on 28 February and Iran responded by closing it. In Bab al-Mandeb, 20 vessels crossed (10 each way), the same as the previous day; crossings there averaged about 41 vessels a day in the week before the Houthis declared their 20 July maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia. Kpler and LSEG data separately showed the ADNOC-controlled LNG tanker Mubaraz reappearing outside the strait, having departed Das Island, UAE, on 14 July and last been seen inside the strait on 16 July, now off India's western coast en route to the Dahej terminal — the third cargo it has carried out of the strait since the war began. Some vessels transiting with transponders off are not captured in these counts.

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