Shipping data show Middle Eastern producers continued oil and LNG loadings
despite recent ship attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and renewed US‑Iran clashes.
A Thursday container-ship attack and a Saturday tanker incident prompted
retaliatory strikes and briefly slowed regional energy shipping, though a US
official said on Sunday both sides agreed to halt recent hostilities and restart
talks to reopen the waterway. LSEG data show a fourth VLCC loaded at Saudi Ras
Tanura on Monday; three VLCCs that loaded over the weekend switched off AIS
transponders to reduce attack risk, one of which reappeared Monday leaving the
Strait bound for Japan. Two additional VLCCs entered the Strait on Sunday and
berthed at UAE terminals to load crude.
