According to preliminary data released by ship tracking agency Kepler on the 22nd, only 2 merchant ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on the 21st, a further decrease from the previous day when 10 ships passed. According to the data, the vessels that passed that day were a bulk carrier carrying minerals, a Panamanian flag bulk carrier, and a Liberian flag bulk carrier, respectively. The above statistics do not include vessels that may shut down automatic ship identification systems to avoid being tracked. The Strait of Hormuz is one of the “throats” of global energy transportation. Previously, it carried about one-fifth of the world's crude oil and refined oil products, and was also an important transportation channel for liquefied natural gas. Before the war between the US and Iran broke out in February of this year, an average of 125 large Japanese merchant ships passed through the strait, mainly oil tankers, gas carriers, bulk carriers, and container ships.

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