Daily Ship Traffic in Strait of Hormuz Plummets From 138 to Just 2

Irina Slav

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Vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dropped from an average of 138 ships a day to just two in the 24 hours to Thursday, the Joint Maritime Information Center has reported.

The center noted that neither of the two vessels that passed the strait were tankers.

“This represents a near-total temporary pause in routine commercial traffic, resulting from ongoing regional conflict dynamics involving Iran, including warnings against transits by U.S., Israeli, European, and allied vessels,” the JMIC noted in its report.

The agency has estimated the regional maritime risk environment as critical, extending this assessment over the next 48 hours, “with no confirmed indicators of de-escalation.” Noting that there has been no formal declaration for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the environment is fraught with so many threats, traffic has slowed to a trickle.