LNG ship from India heading towards Hormuz drops anchor

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Ships successful  the Strait of Hormuz. File

Ships successful the Strait of Hormuz. File | Photo Credit: AP

Umm Al Ashtan, the LNG bearer that had acceptable sail from Dahej, Gujarat, to the Persian Gulf for loading, has dropped anchor astatine Khor Fakkan, conscionable downstream of the Strait of Hormuz, arsenic per marinetraffic.com. The vessel would person been among the archetypal to transverse the Strait of Hormuz from the Gulf of Oman to load cargo if it had made the scheduled transit connected Friday (May 1, 2026).

Umm Al Ashtan had stayed adjacent to Oman during its transit dissimilar emblematic Iran-approved transits that hug the Iranian coast. The scheduled transition of the vessel had fixed anticipation of normalcy returning.

Published - May 01, 2026 07:46 p.m. IST

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