{"id":42624,"date":"2026-04-06T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42624"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:06:07","slug":"japan-owned-tanker-crosses-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42624","title":{"rendered":"Japan-owned tanker crosses Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TOKYO: A Japanese shipping firm said on Monday (Apr 6) that an Indian-flagged tanker owned by its subsidiary had passed through the Strait of Hormuz and was en route to the South Asian country.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has effectively closed the strait &#8211; a critical route for global crude oil and gas &#8211; in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes that began on Feb 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The near-closing of the international artery has led to fuel shortages and soaring energy prices across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman of Mitsui OSK Lines told AFP the LPG tanker Green Asha had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/world\/iran-war-india-flagged-lpg-tanker-strait-hormuz-6036571\">crossed the strait<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both the crew and the cargo are safe,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third Japan-linked ship to transit the strait.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, India&#8217;s government said the LPG tanker Green Sanvi, also owned by Mitsui&#8217;s subsidiary, had safely transited the strait.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, three tankers, including one co-owned by Mitsui, crossed the strait.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsui&#8217;s Sohar LNG vessel was the first LNG tanker to have crossed the strait since Mar 1.<\/p>\n<p>The few vessels that have crossed the choke point since the start of the Middle East war have passed using an Iranian-approved route through its waters near Larak Island, dubbed the &#8220;Tehran Toll Booth&#8221; by leading shipping journal Lloyd&#8217;s List.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/world\/japan-owned-tanker-crosses-strait-hormuz-6038566\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: A Japanese shipping firm said on Monday (Apr 6) that an Indian-flagged tanker owned by its subsidiary had passed through the Strait of Hormuz and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}