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Hormuz crossings fall almost 20% in a week, to three on Sunday

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Local time
11:45 AM in New York
Where
Strait of Hormuz

MarineTraffic and Kpler counted 95 crossings of the Strait of Hormuz in the week to Aug. 16, down 19.5 percent, falling from 19 on Aug. 11 to three on Aug. 16; 51 used Iran's designated route and 44 other routes. Kpler counted five commodity vessels on Saturday and none on Sunday, against 31 the previous weekend, while Bab el-Mandeb transits rose to 254 from 238.

Why it matters

Traffic remains a small fraction of the roughly 130 ships a day before the war, even as both Washington and Tehran claim to control the strait.

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Correction

  • Corrected the time from 8:20 AM UTC time, Aug 18, 2026 to 11:45 AM New York time, Aug 17, 2026; corrected the headline (it read "Kpler says confirmed Hormuz crossings fell nearly 20 percent in a week"); revised the summary; revised the context note; updated the sourcing note; merged a duplicate entry into this one ("Hormuz weekend traffic falls after the tanker attacks"); added 2 sources: CBS News; removed an unverified publication date from Reuters (2026-08-16). Why and evidence