BW Tyr and BW Elm, two Indian flagged LPG carriers, crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday (March 28, 2026) as per ship tracker websites. They were among the five Indian LPG carriers anchored north of Dubai-Ras Al Khaima on Friday (March 27, 2026). 

P. Aliki, a Greek-owned crude oil carrier of more than 1 lakh tonne capacity, also crossed the strait on Saturday (March 28, 2026). P. Aliki, chartered by the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation, loaded at Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia and is scheduled to dock at Karachi in Pakistan for discharging.  

Tyr and Elm, owned by BW LPG India, a subsidiary of the well-known BW Group, have a combined cargo carrying capacity of more than 106,000 tonnes. The two together are said to be carrying cargo of around 93,000 tonnes, as per a reliable source — equivalent to three days of current LPG import requirements. While BW Elm’s intended destination as of last week was New Mangaluru Port, Tyr’s was Mumbai.

The three other Indian LPG carriers anchored southwest of the strait have a combined cargo of some 80,000 tonnes of LPG. They are owned by Great Eastern Shipping Company of India and the Indian operations of Mitsui OSK Lines of Japan. 

Iranian authorities who give explicit approvals for ships to pass through the strait have been insisting that the ships hugged the Iranian coast and went around Iran’s Larak Island so as to get visual confirmation of the affiliation of the vessel. “Ship-tracking data shows the three vessels that transited on Saturday took the new IRGC-controlled route around Iran’s Larak Island and through the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters as they sailed outbound through the Strait of Hormuz,” says Toomer Raanan, maritime risk analyst at Lloyd’s List, a provider of news, analysis and data to global shipping. 

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Saturday’s (March 28, 2026) transit of two India bound ships and one Pakistan bound vessel came as a surprise since, on Friday (March 27, 2026), Iran had apparently turned away three ships linked to China. Two of them served Saudi ports. Iran had earlier indicated that ships with affiliations to India, Pakistan, Iran, Thailand, China and Russia can transit the strait. 

Meanwhile, Greek-owned crude oil tanker, Marathi, carrying some 1 million barrels of crude oil from Ras Tanura docked in Sikka on Thursday (March 26, 2026) after transiting the strait last week. So far, six Indian LPG carriers have crossed the chokepoint.