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Hormuz Ship Traffic Falls to Weekly Low as Standoff Drags On

Oilprice.com Trade press Published 12th August 2026 Global

What the source reported

Source-reported

The number of ships that have transited the Strait of Hormuz dropped to a week-low on Tuesday, according to shipping data, as vessel owners continue to avoid the key chokepoint in the Middle East. Only eight vessels moved in either direction at the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, the lowest number since August 5, and below the latest 10-day average of 12, per Kpler data cited by Reuters on Wednesday. Traffic at the waterway, where some 20 million barrels of oil were flowing before the war, has continuously declined this week amid heightened security…

Publication
Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
Published
12th August 2026
Original report
oilprice.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
Global
Organisations
None identified
Collected
12th August 2026 · 11:24

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Moderate (30.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (12.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (37.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Likely Event Severity