After two months of disappearance following the US-Iran conflict, two Saudi supertankers reappear in the Gulf of Oman

(1) Ship tracking data shows that two supertankers, Shaden and Jaham, controlled by Saudi Arabian national shipping company Bahri, reappeared on Thursday morning, transmitting signals near the Fujairah waters in the Gulf of Oman. They were last seen in April in waters near Dubai inside the Persian Gulf, and had been "out of contact" for about two months.(2) These two very large crude carriers carry a total of about 4.2 million barrels of crude oil, loaded at Saudi Arabia’s Juaymah and Ras Tanura ports in late February.(3) However, just days after loading (February 28), the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, and passage through the Strait of Hormuz became restricted, making the movements of the two tankers a mystery for some time. Their reappearance may indicate that transport through the strait is gradually resuming.