The number of tankers traversing the Strait of Hormuz has dropped to the lowest in two months amid renewed attacks on vessels in the waterway—right after tanker-tracking outlets said oil flows out of Hormuz are back to pre-war levels.
“Crude crossing the strait fell 27% from a wartime high the week before, to at least 10.1 million barrels a day,” two Kpler analysts reported, as the firm counted only seven commodity carriers traversing the strait on Tuesday.
This was the lowest figure since late July, the analysts said. “That…