The effective closure of the crucial waterway has upended global energy markets, sending prices surging. Iran is also trying to set up a tolling system, seeking payments of as much as $US2 million ($2.9 million) per voyage through the waterway.<\/p>\n
The three ships transiting are particularly interesting because they are the largest type of oil tankers and would be the first LNG carriers to leave the Gulf since the war began.<\/p>\n
They all stopped sending automated position signals when they were approaching, or just rounding, the tip of Oman\u2019s Mussandam Peninsula, which juts northwards into the strait. Tracking ships entering and exiting Hormuz has also been complicated by intense signal jamming in the area, as well as signal spoofing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The tankers are each hauling about 2 million barrels of crude, while the gas carrier appears to be empty, the tracking data shows. One of the tankers loaded in Saudi Arabia in late February and was signalling its destination as Myanmar, where a pipeline carries crude into China. The other carrier is carrying crude from Abu Dhabi to an undisclosed destination.<\/p>\n
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