SoH E: 0.7/day
BAM SE: 8.4/day
Showing posts with label Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bab-el-Mandeb Strait. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Monday, June 15, 2026
Middle East tanker traffic June 7-13, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 1.3/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 17.0/day
SoH E: 0.7/day
BAM SE: 8.1/day
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Middle East tanker transits June 4-10, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 1.7/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 16.6/day
SoH E: 1.1/day
BAM SE: 8.7/day
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Middle East tanker transits June 2-8, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.1/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 15.6/day
SoH E: 1.1/day
BAM SE: 7.9/day
Monday, June 8, 2026
Middle East tanker transits 31 May - 6 June 2026: Strait of Hormuz 1.7/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 15.7/day
SoH E: 1.0/day
BAM SE: 7.7/day
Friday, June 5, 2026
The increase in Saudi oil exports through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in April 2026 came to about 3.3 million barrels per day according to Kpler
Iran’s threats against this Red Sea choke point are a big vulnerability for the oil market
... Oil and product exports through the Bab el-Mandeb nearly doubled to 7.2 million barrels per day in April compared with 3.9 million bpd in February before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, according to data provided by Kpler.
The interactive chart by Kpler in the story is a shipwreck.
The data is in millions of barrels per day passing through, as explained in the story. Unfortunately you don't see "million" anywhere in the chart.
What you see is 5.2B, 7.7B, 2.9B, etc., which could easily be misinterpreted as either "barrels" or "billion".
The proper designation should be MMb/d or perhaps MMB/D in the chart, but maybe just leave that out entirely next time because it's already too busy and just put "million" in the subtitle before "barrels" and leave it 5.2, 7.7, 2.9, etc. in the chart.
Middle East tanker transits May 28-Jun 3, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 1.1/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 14.9/day
SoH E: 0.4/day
BAM SE: 7.3/day
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Middle East tanker transits May 26-June 1 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.0/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 17.3/day
SoH E: 0.9/day
BAM SE: 7.3/day
Monday, June 1, 2026
Oh yeah, Iran wants to make a deal so badly it now threatens to shut down the Red Sea on top of the Persian Gulf
U.S. intercepts Iran missiles targeting American forces in Kuwait: CENTCOM
Treasury yields rise after Iran reportedly stops communication with U.S.
U.S. oil jumps more than 7% on report Iran will halt talks with U.S. and completely block Hormuz
U.S. oil prices jumped nearly 8% Monday, after Iranian state media said Tehran will halt talks with the U.S. and completely close the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon. ...
Tehran will completely block the Strait of Hormuz and open other fronts including the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Tasnim reported. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is a trade chokepoint that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. ...
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Meanwhile CNBC has an excellent story with great interactive graphs of vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait before and after the Houthi and Iran conflicts
And it's quite clear that the Iran war has had no real effect on the number of vessel transits through the Bab-el-Mandeb while destroying transits through the Strait of Hormuz.
Increased Saudi reliance on Yanbu on the Red Sea might change BAM transits in the future, but to what extent transits through SoH might recover is very difficult to say.
BAM transits never recovered from the Houthi threat, and SoH transits may not from the Iran threat, with serious implications not just for oil but for important bulk materials like fertilizer and helium.
SoH transits:
Feb 24 2026: 107.29
Apr 18 2026: 12.57
May 24 2026: 6.00
BAM transits:
May 24 2023: 82.86
Feb 26 2026: 40.14
May 24 2026: 38.14
Oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz might not return to levels seen before the Iran war
... Daily traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, collapsed by more than half from 75 ships on Nov. 19, 2023 to 31 vessels by January 30, 2024. More than two years later, traffic through the strait still has not returned to the levels once considered normal. ...
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Middle East tanker transits May 21-27, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.3/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 15.6/day
SoH E averages 1.3/day
BAM SE averages 7.3/day
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Middle East tanker transits May 19-25, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.4/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 16.4/day
The table shown below is from JMIC Update 50.
The previous update was JMIC Update 48, the table in which in comparison with the one in 47 looked hopelessly screwed up, so I guess they just skipped an Update 49 and started fresh on May 19 lol.
There is no overlap in the table in 50 with the previous table, which has been the customary procedure from update to update.
BAM NW averages 8.7/day, BAM SE 7.7/day.
Keep in mind NW tankers which transit north to fill at Yanbu, then leave and transit south again can thus become SE transits in addition to NW transits in the totals. Most of these tankers are making this round trip, and most of them are 2-million barrel capacity very large crude carriers which sail in empty and sail out again full.
SoH E transits average just 1.6/day.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Middle East tanker transits per UKMTO JMIC Update 47 May 12-18, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.00/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 15.42/day
The tanker table for JMIC Update 48 is a mess. It has the wrong dates, and five days of data are identical to the data in Update 47.
There was also a duplicate JMIC 46 update a few days ago, just minutes apart.
It is what it is.
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| From JMIC 47 |
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| From JMIC 48 (the dates should be 14 May-20 May like the Cargo Vessels table, but somehow the exact same data for May 12-16 from Update 47 reappears!) |
Monday, May 18, 2026
Thursday, May 14, 2026
From JMIC Update 45: Bab-el-Mandeb Strait tanker transits average 13.42/day May 7-13, 2026
Strait of Hormuz 1.57/day.
BAM tanker transits aren't even up to 2022's average of 30/day. The crisis of the oil trade is not being significantly ameliorated by Red Sea operations.
Estimates continue to put 5 million barrels per day leaving Yanbu, much of it heading to buyers in east Asia.
Fujairah in the UAE exports shy of 2 million barrels per day, also to the east.
Iran's exports in April are said to be shy of 1 million barrels per day.
Kuwait exported nothing.
Iraq exported maybe 0.131 million barrels per day.
So 8.1 million barrels per day in April?
21.0 million barrels per day left the region in 2022.
Update 5/18/26:
IEA estimates 8 mb/day bypassing Strait of Hormuz, flows still far below pre-war levels.
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Sunday, May 10, 2026
IMF: Transits through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait remain half of what they were prior to the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 and have not come close to replacing lost Persian Gulf shipping
... In the Red Sea, attacks on shipping that began in 2023 forced many vessels to reroute around Africa rather than use the Suez Canal. More than two years on, transits through the Bab el-Mandeb strait between Yemen and Djibouti remain stuck at roughly half their pre-attack level. ...
More.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
JMIC Update 42 for tanker traffic in the Middle East April 30-May 6 2026
Middle East Tanker Traffic April 30-May 6, 2026
Strait of Hormuz E: 1.14/day
Strait of Hormuz W: 1.14/day
Total: 2.28/day
Normal (2022): 70/day
Down 96.7%
Bab-el-Mandeb Strait SE: 7.28/day
Bab-el-Mandeb Strait NW: 8.14/day
Total: 15.42/day
Normal (2022): 30/day
Down 48.6%
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Current Bab-al-Mandeb tanker traffic at the end of April 2026 appears consistent with 1Q2026 Suez Canal tanker traffic, nothing more
Suez Canal Tanker Traffic 1Q26 v 1Q22
SOUTH
Tankers per day +1.6 to 7.5
Tonnage per ship +16.7%
NORTH
Tankers per day +0.3 to 7.9
Tonnage per ship +18.9%
Bab-el-Mandeb Strait Tanker Traffic 4/28-5/4/2026
SOUTH
7.42/day
NORTH
8.14/day
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