🔸 Shipping data shows that two tankers carrying Saudi crude oil transited the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the end of the week and left the Red Sea; at the same time, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz decreased after reports of several new attacks.

🔸 According to data from the company Kepler, the tanker “Lesbos,” with about one million barrels of Saudi oil, and the tanker “Desh Vibhaav,” with two million barrels of oil, passed through Bab al-Mandab while their automatic identification systems were turned off.

🔸 Iranian-backed Houthi forces have announced a “maritime blockade” of Saudi Arabia as of July 20. The number of cargo ships that transited Bab al-Mandab on Sunday fell to 18 vessels; the figure was 27 on Saturday.

🔸 In the Strait of Hormuz as well, the number of cargo ships fell from 19 vessels on Friday to 10 vessels on Saturday. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations organization has reported three other attacks on tankers in this area since Saturday.