the news now
This is a new development in a story we have covered before · earlier coverage

Gulf Shipping Traffic Drops Following Houthi Claims of Attacks on Saudi Tankers

evening · · thread: US and Iran Pause Military Strikes Amid Continued Drone Attacks on Saudi Oil Sites

2 sources across 2 countries · Singapore · United States · 1 of them is linked to a state

Who reported this

  • The Straits Times Singapore · Centre-right · State-affiliated · SPH Media Trust; management shares under the NPPA
  • Al-Monitor United States · Centre · Jamal Daniel

What the colours mean

  • Left
  • Centre-left
  • Centre
  • Centre-right
  • Right
  • A hatched block means the outlet is affiliated with, or controlled by, a state.

Political lean describes where an outlet sits within the politics of its own country. It is never a position on a single global scale.

Political lean is comparable inside one country and not across them, which is why the bar groups by country first. Publicly funded broadcasters are not marked as state-linked.

The owner of each outlet is listed as a matter of record, not as a judgement about the outlet.

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el Mandeb strait decreased significantly on Wednesday compared to the previous day. According to data from Kpler, only two vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz, consisting of a Panama flagged coal carrier entering and a Marshall Islands flagged commodity vessel exiting. This is a decrease from eight vessels the day prior. Typically, 130 to 140 ships transit the waterway, but traffic has been impacted since the U.S. Israeli war with Iran began on February 28 and Iran closed the strait. In the Bab el Mandeb, only one Bahamas flagged dry bulk carrier crossed on Wednesday, down from 20 vessels the previous day.

Yemen's Iran aligned Houthis claimed they launched missile attacks on two Saudi oil tankers, one off the coast of the Red Sea port city of Yanbu and another in the Gulf of Aden. Saudi Arabia has not confirmed either incident. The Houthis have maintained a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea since last month. The Houthis state this is a response to a Saudi siege on Yemen, an allegation that Riyadh has denied.

How each side framed it

Centre
The center leaning source presented the shipping data and Houthi claims as factual reports without additional framing.
Centre-right
The center right leaning source provided a nearly identical account of the events and data without adding distinct framing.

Sources

100% of the statements in this article were traced back to the source articles listed above.