The New York Post, in a report pointing to a significant increase in ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, citing market analysts, wrote that the Islamic Republic’s control over this waterway has weakened. Based on data from the UK Maritime Trade Operations Centre, nearly 200 ships passed through the strait last week.

This figure was 150 ships in the week before that and only 40 ships two weeks earlier.

This increase has brought the total traffic on this route to about 20 percent of pre-war levels. In peacetime, about 20 percent of the world’s seaborne oil shipments passed through this route.

Activity in the Strait of Hormuz had almost stopped after the outbreak of the Iran war at the end of February, but despite the continued stalemate between Tehran and the United States, ships are now increasingly transiting this waterway.

According to statements from the maritime intelligence company Kpler, more than 80 percent of liquid cargoes that transited the Strait of Hormuz over the past two weeks either used the route via Oman or went into “dark” mode and likely transited via the same route. The Oman route is a channel supported by the United States and approved by the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations, which Iran does not accept.

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