Tyr and Elm, owned by BW LPG India, a subsidiary of the well-known BW Group and BW LPG, have a mixed cargo carrying capability of greater than 106,000 tonnes. File image | Photograph Credit score: Reuters
BW Tyr and BW Elm, two Indian flagged LPG carriers, crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday (March 28, 2026) as per ship tracker web sites. They had been among the many 5 Indian LPG carriers anchored north of Dubai-Ras Al Khaima on Friday (March 27, 2026).
P. Aliki, a Greek-owned crude oil provider of greater than 1 lakh tonne capability, additionally crossed the strait on Saturday (March 28, 2026). P. Aliki, chartered by the Pakistan Nationwide Transport Company, loaded at Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia and is scheduled to dock at Karachi in Pakistan for discharging.
Tyr and Elm, owned by BW LPG India, a subsidiary of the well-known BW Group, have a mixed cargo carrying capability of greater than 106,000 tonnes. The 2 collectively are mentioned to be carrying cargo of round 93,000 tonnes, as per a dependable supply — equal to 3 days of present LPG import necessities. Whereas BW Elm’s meant vacation spot as of final week was New Mangaluru Port, Tyre’s was Mumbai.
The three different Indian LPG carriers anchored southwest of the strait have a mixed cargo of some 80,000 tonnes of LPG. They’re owned by Nice Jap Transport Firm of India and the Indian operations of Mitsui OSK Strains of Japan.
Iranian authorities who give specific approvals for ships to go by the strait have been insisting that the ships hugged the Iranian coast and went round Iran’s Larak Island in order to get visible affirmation of the affiliation of the vessel. “Ship-tracking knowledge reveals the three vessels that transited on Saturday took the brand new IRGC-controlled route round Iran’s Larak Island and thru the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters as they sailed outbound by the Strait of Hormuz,” says Toomer Raanan, maritime threat analyst at Lloyd’s Checklista supplier of reports, evaluation and knowledge to international delivery.
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Saturday’s (March 28, 2026) transit of two India certain ships and one Pakistan certain vessel got here as a shock since, on Friday (March 27, 2026), Iran had apparently turned away three ships linked to China. Two of them served Saudi ports. Iran had earlier indicated that ships with affiliations to India, Pakistan, Iran, Thailand, China and Russia can transit the strait.
In the meantime, Greek-owned crude oil tanker, Marathi, carrying some 1 million barrels of crude oil from Ras Tanura docked in Sikka on Thursday (March 26, 2026) after transiting the strait final week. Thus far, six Indian LPG carriers have crossed the chokepoint.
Revealed – March 28, 2026 04:31 pm IST