Hormuz Ship Traffic Falls to Weekly Low as Standoff Drags On
- Source
- Oilprice.com
- Source link
- https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Hormuz-Ship-Traffic-Falls-to-Weekly-Low-as-Standoff-Drags-On.html
- Published
- 2026-08-12 10:47:58
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-12 11:24:05
- Category
- Commodities & Raw Materials
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
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…
Procurement Relevance Gate
- commodity_or_input_impact (weight 12) — matched on "oil"
- logistics_freight_transport (weight 12) — matched on "shipping"
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
- Initial Significance
- 2 · Moderate (30.0/100)
- Initial Confidence
- 2 · Low (37.5/100)
- Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
- Partial
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity
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).
- No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
- Entity Criticality data quality warning: all_linked_entities_data_insufficient.
- no matched Event type
- no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
- no actor content-derived geography
- single source only
- Entities were mentioned as context or document attribution rather than as actors in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
- Geographies were mentioned only in diplomatic reaction, commentary or background context rather than as the actor, event location or affected party in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
- Only source-level geography metadata was available.
- Source metadata did not contribute to Initial Confidence.
Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-12 11:24:05.