Six Saudi oil tankers are sailing away from the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint and appeared to be embarking on an unusual trip around Africa as threats from Houthi rebels upend shipping in the Red Sea.

Shipping across the crucial Strait of Hormuz has picked up in recent days despite a continuation of hostilities in the Middle East, with the US claiming its navy escorted some tankers across the waterway.

Empty supertankers are heading to Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Sidi Kerir to collect Saudi Arabia’s crude, a signal of wariness among some shipowners about sailing closer to Houthi-threatened waters.

An Asia-bound supertanker carrying Saudi oil has exited the Red Sea via the longer Suez Canal route while other vessels continue to risk the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, as Houthi threats heighten uncertainty in the region.

A Hong Kong-flagged supertanker bound for Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port of Yanbu has U-turned just before reaching the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint, where recent attacks were launched by the Houthis as part of a blockade on ships linked to the kingdom.

Millions of barrels of Saudi Arabian crude are still being shipped from the nation’s Red Sea coast to the global market, despite threats and attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militants against the kingdom’s shipping that have the potential to further destabilize the global oil trade.

Two China-owned oil tankers loaded with Saudi Arabian crude exited the Red Sea via the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint despite overnight Houthi attacks on vessels in the region.

Ships continue to turn away from the southern end of the Red Sea, after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels announced an embargo on Saudi exports through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a narrow channel that has become a lifeline for oil exports since the beginning of the US-Israeli war with Iran.

A message from Yemen’s Houthi rebels to shipowners warned all vessels against calling at Saudi Arabian ports, shedding light on the scope of a threat that puts millions of barrels of exports from the kingdom at risk.

Another tanker was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz as renewed hostilities empty the waterway, while a threat by Houthi rebels to blockade Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea heightened regional maritime risks.

Two US-sanctioned tankers carrying cooking fuel are U-turning and zig-zagging in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, part of a flotilla of vessels laden with Iranian energy exports that are facing an aggressive US blockade of the country’s shipping.

Iran’s recent attacks on oil tankers are jeopardizing an innovative trade that has rapidly expanded in recent months to become one of the main ways for getting crude out of the Persian Gulf — so-called “shuttle runs.”

The escalation of hostilities between Washington and Tehran and the virtual standstill in observable traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is prompting Asian refiners to look at buying more US oil.

Two United Arab Emirates-linked supertankers came under attack while sailing “dark” through the Strait of Hormuz, threatening one of the main methods of getting non-Iranian crude to the global market during the war.

Iran has reverted to its well-used tactic of going dark to move oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, even before the US said it would reimpose a blockade of the country’s ports.

Iran has reverted to its well-used tactic of going dark to move oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, even before the US said it would reimpose a blockade of the country’s ports.

A huge backlog of oil tankers that got stuck inside the Persian Gulf because of the Iran war has almost cleared out — just in time for a fresh military flare up to create renewed uncertainty about how safe the region is for ships.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz came to a near standstill after the US struck Iran for a second straight day, leaving a fragile truce between the two sides looking increasingly shaky.

Three ships were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, heightening unease among shipowners and testing a US-Iran agreement to halt attacks.

Just a few weeks into the war, one of the Persian Gulf’s top oil producers quietly began sneaking its crude out of the Strait of Hormuz. Before long, the covert project became so successful that the United Arab Emirates was already approaching its pre-war rate of flows through the waterway by the time the US and Iran signed their interim peace deal.