Kepler company data shows that on Thursday, only one tanker carrying two million barrels of Iraqi oil transited the Strait of Hormuz to reach China, and no tankers also entered the Persian Gulf from this waterway.

This level of tanker traffic is the lowest recorded in more than two months. Before the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, between 120 and 150 ships per day would pass through this waterway, nearly half of which were tankers.

Over the past two weeks, the Islamic Republic and the Houthis supported by it have carried out widespread attacks on ships in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab.

Kepler data shows that on Thursday, 32 tankers passed through Bab al-Mandab, nine of which were carrying oil bound for China.

Before the Middle East war, a total of 27 million barrels of oil and petroleum products per day—equivalent to one quarter of the world’s oil consumption—would pass through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab.