Six commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, 2 September, against eleven the previous day and a ten-day average near thirteen [E1][E2]. The Thursday public note timed the underlying cut at 04:05 GMT [E2]. Five of the six were inbound from the Gulf of Oman; one outbound was a laden very large gas carrier [E2]. The same note said craft that switch off transponders drop out of the count, so the six is a floor on what that series could see, not a census of every hull [E2].
By 12:00 GMT on Thursday, Brent was at $97.29 a barrel, up $1.66 or 1.7 percent, and West Texas Intermediate was at $93.04, up $2.03 or 2.2 percent [E1]. Both were heading for a fourth session of gains and had already printed six-week highs earlier in the day [E1]. That midday handle is the public snapshot this file uses; it is not a claim about the official settle [E1].
Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority updated its list of non-compliant vessels inside the freeze [E3][E4]. A government-website change added eleven names and took the roster to fifty-six, according to the 2 September wrap [E4]. Mehr, Iran’s official English wire, reported the update on 3 September and restated the penalties: restrictions on future passages, including fines, detention or confiscation [E3]. Any vessel cooperating with listed ships, including by ship-to-ship transfer, can be added [E3].
The list page itself is the Iranian document [E5]. Public wires did not print the eleven new names or say whether Wednesday’s six movers appear on it [E4][E5]. Cargo owners were told to screen the roster before fixing Gulf voyages [E3]. The original August warning had already named tanker classes among the restricted entries [E4].
Washington’s Iran sanctions program remains the legal backdrop for any Iranian clearance or detention regime in the strait [E6]. A list maintained in Tehran is not a substitute for a U.S. designation, and a U.S. program page does not measure Wednesday’s six hulls [E6][E2]. Shipowners now face two papers at once: the throughput print and the expanded detention roster [E1][E3].
Nothing in these documents converts six vessels into barrels delayed [E1][E2]. Names, flags, deadweight and waiting time are missing from the Thursday cut [E2]. The six is a named-wire floor on what that series could see at 04:05 GMT, not a cargo-tonne ledger [E2].
Wednesday’s strait printed six against a recent thirteen [E1][E2]. Thursday’s London snapshot put Brent on a $97 handle while Tehran’s list moved to fifty-six [E1][E4]. The chokepoint is being counted in hulls and in names; it is not yet being counted in tonnes [E2][E5].