
Shipping
Tankers exit Strait of Hormuz with 6 million barrels of crude oil
Three supertankers carrying 6 million barrels of Middle East crude exited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday after waiting in the Gulf for more than two months, with another entering the waterway. The South Korean-flagged VLCC Universal Winner carried 2 million barrels of Kuwaiti crude loaded on March 4, heading to Ulsan for discharge on June 9. Chinese tankers Yuan Gui Yang and Ocean Lily also departed, carrying Iraqi and Qatari crude respectively. Shipping traffic through the strait has averaged only 10 vessels daily since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began February 28, compared to 125-140 passages before the conflict.























