Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slumped to single digits on Thursday, down from a 10-day average of 15 vessels that transited the chokepoint in both directions, Reuters reports, citing preliminary vessel-tracking data by Kpler as of early Friday. Only seven vessels, two outbound and five inbound, transited the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours, per the data, which tracks only ships with positioning systems switched on. Dark transits are believed to be much higher as vessel operators and commodity buyers prefer to switch off their…

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