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A tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an unknown projectile and caught fire, the first attack of October following a cluster of at least 16 strikes on vessels in September.
Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority has warned it will blacklist charterers that pressure vessels into transiting the Strait of Hormuz without required approvals, as its non-compliance list grows past 80 ships.
A Bahrain-led coalition of roughly 80 UN member states has issued a joint statement demanding the immediate and unimpeded reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping.
An Indian seafarer died after the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged bulk carrier Cape Dao was struck by an unknown projectile and abandoned near Oman’s Musandam Governorate, marking a fresh casualty in the escalating conflict around the Strait of Hormuz.
Two more tankers were struck in the Strait of Hormuz within hours of each other, injuring two crew members and pushing the number of reported attacks on commercial shipping in the strait to at least five since September 16.
Greek shipping interests have placed orders for 14 new vessels including VLCCs, LNG carriers and ammonia carriers as disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz tighten global tanker supply.
The Panama-flagged tanker El Gaia is being towed to an Omani port after an engine-room fire following an attack in the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran and the United States offering conflicting accounts of what struck the vessel.
IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez has called on member states to stop attacking merchant vessels and seafarers across the Middle East, Black Sea and Red Sea conflicts, citing 80 verified attacks near the Strait of Hormuz alone.
Daily charter rates for VLCCs hauling crude from the Persian Gulf to China surged past $1 million for the first time as the Iran war leaves too few tankers willing to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Navy escorts protecting oil tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz will continue indefinitely as crude flows recover to roughly two-thirds of pre-conflict levels.
