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Preliminary shipping data show that three commodity ships transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, down from four a day earlier and below the 10-day moving average of about 15. According to shipping tracker Kpler, all three vessels, including a Panamax tanker, were exiting the strait. However, according to the data, an empty LNG tanker, the Al Mafyar, reappeared in the strait on Tuesday, having last been seen outside the waterway on Sept. 19. Meanwhile, 22 commodity ships transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday. According to the data, 14 of them were heading to the Red Sea and eight to the Gulf of Aden. They included five Panamax tankers, six Supramax vessels, four Aframax tankers, one Suezmax tanker and one very large crude carrier. That figure was down from the 10-day average of 26.