But two tankers made it through as Trump’s blockade of the crucial route began.It’s the first full day of Trump’s proclaimed blockade of vessels calling at Iranian ports, which began at 3pm yesterday
We’re tracking movements across the Strait of Hormuz and vessels potentially making passage out of the Persian Gulf from Iran.
The US-sanctioned Rich Starry, a 36,000-tonne combined chemical and oil tanker, moved out of the Strait of Hormuz between yesterday afternoon and in the early hours of this morning.
According to ship-tracking data, Rich Starry is labelled with “Chinese owners and crew”. It is falsely sailing under the flag of Malawi, however, according to ship trackers.
It is sitting in the Gulf of Oman as of 9:35am today.
The ship filled up in a port belonging to the UAE yesterday – not at an Iranian port. But it is subject to US sanctions. The US Treasury Department has listed the ship, formerly named Full Star, on its specially designated nationals list for involvement in shipping Iranian products.
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An Iranian-flagged oil tanker, Elpis, also subject to US sanctions, crossed through the middle of the strait around noon yesterday, passing east out of the waterway and into the Gulf of Oman as the blockade began, according to ship-tracking data.
It originally departed Iran’s Port of Bushehr, to the north of the Persian Gulf.
The US Treasury Department also put the Elpis on a sanctions list last year among other vessels for their role in “brokering the sale and transportation of Iranian petroleum-related products”.
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