SEOSAN, South Korea(AP) — A Malta-flagged tanker carrying 1 million barrels of crude oil arrived off South Korea’s west coast Friday after passing through the Strait of Hormuz in mid-April, a South Korean refinery said. Like many other Asian nations ...

An LNG carrier’s passage was coordinated by the ship’s charterer, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

A South Korean oil tanker is continuing crude oil transport through the Red Sea as an alternate route after the Strait of Hormuz was closed.

Tehran responded to the U.S.-Israeli attacks that began on February 28 by effectively shutting the Strait of Hormuz to exports other than its own, bottling up a fifth of global oil and gas ​supply. The closure and a U.S. blockade that has halted Iranian exports in recent weeks has pushed global oil prices over $100 a barrel.

Supporters and activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami party holding placards protest against rising fuel prices triggered by the Middle East war, in Islamabad on May 15, 2026. [AFP] A South Korean oil tanker is currently passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the ...

Oil tankers are passing through the Strait of Hormuz along a narrow corridor that US Navy destroyers cleared, and they are doing it without a single escort vessel alongside them. Ship-tracking data confirms that sanctioned vessels have been turning around at the chokepoint while a subset of commercial traffic continues through on a path the

United States Central Command said its forces “disabled” an unladen oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Monday. The vessel was bound for Iran, violating the US blockade of the country’s ports, the US military posted on X.