5 India-bound LPG ships keep anchored close to Hormuz Strait

5 LPG carriers, all Indian flagged and sure for India, are anchored north off Dubai-Ras Al Khaimah, simply southwest of the Strait of Hormuz, as per ship tracker web sites.

Showing to bunch collectively to allow them to troop out of the strait, these ships carry greater than 1.7 lakh tonnes of LPG — equal to just about six days of India’s present import necessities. However they weren’t shifting on a day Iran appeared to clamp down on any ship motion throughout the strait after earlier saying it will approve ships of pleasant nations to cross via.

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On Friday (March 27, 2026), Iran’s Revolutionary Guards mentioned that they’d turned again three ships attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz, including the route was closed to vessels touring to and from ports linked to its “enemies”. “This morning, following the lies of the corrupt US President claiming that the Strait of Hormuz was open, three container ships of various nationalities… had been turned again after a warning from the IRGC Navy,” the Guards mentioned on their Sepah Information web site. A complete of 26 ships have been permitted by Iran to transit the strait not too long ago, utilizing a route round Larak Island simply off the nation’s coast, dubbed the “Tehran toll sales space” by main transport journal Lloyd’s Checklist. Most had been Greek- and Chinese language-owned, in addition to different Indian-, Pakistani- and Syrian-owned vessels.

Iran had beforehand introduced that ships of India and another nations — Russia, Iraq, Pakistan, China and Thailand — can cross the strait. Nonetheless, Iranian Overseas Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi had mentioned that the US, Israel and a few Gulf States concerned within the present conflict won’t be allowed to cross via the strait.

(With inputs from AFP)