Tanker traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait slumped to a multi-month low on Sunday amid Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure on the Red Sea coast. Only 11 tankers carrying commodities transited the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint between the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea on Sunday, the lowest in months, according to Kpler’s shipping data cited by Reuters. Tanker traffic at the Red Sea started to slow a week ago after the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen announced a blockade on Saudi shipments and threatened strikes on tankers. The Houthis carried…

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