Shipping traffic across the Strait of Hormuz remains nearly halted on Monday, according to platforms tracking maritime navigation, despite US President Donald Trump's indication of the start of oil tankers' departures from the corridor, which he said would be fully open by Friday.
However, by 14:00 on Monday, the platform 'Kpler' tracked the transit of one raw material vessel through the strait with its transponder activated, according to 'Agence France-Presse'.
The vessel that passed is the 'Disha', flying the Maltese flag, which left the Gulf loaded with 60,000 tons of liquefied natural gas that was loaded in Qatar, heading to India.
It appears that the cargo ship 'Kaiser' also crossed the strait around noon according to its Automatic Identification System signal available on the 'MarineTraffic' platform.
Nikos Pothitakis, media relations officer at 'Kpler', stated in a post on the 'X' platform: 'Transit operations are still limited, while over 500 commercial ships broadcast their AIS signals in the Persian Gulf over the past 24 hours'.
The US president mentioned on his platform 'Truth Social' on Monday that ships 'started to leave' the strait, and later announced that the strait would be 'fully open' by Friday.
Last week, the average number of loaded vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz was 6.4 vessels per day.
Before the outbreak of the war, the strait was witnessing about 120 transits daily, according to maritime data company 'Lloyd's List Intelligence'.
Approximately 20 million barrels per day, or about one-fifth of global oil exports, pass daily through the strait under normal conditions, primarily heading to China, India, South Korea, and Japan.