- Handful of crossings -Just seven vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday and to 1500 GMT Wednesday, according to maritime intelligence firm Kpler. Since March 1, commodities carriers made 218 crossings, according to Kpler data, a 94 percent decrease on peacetime. Of these, 135 were by oil tankers and gas carriers and most were travelling east out of the strait. - 2,000 ships in Gulf -Bloomberg data showed Wednesday that 2,190 vessels sent transponder signals in the Gulf west of the Strait of Hormuz over the past day. Of those, 327 were oil and gas vessels, including 12 very large gas carriers and 50 very large crude carriers.
