The Danuta I, a gas supertanker sailing under the flag of Palau, transited the strait in the early hours of Friday morning local time, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. As the very-large gas carrier was sailing inside the gulf and later, through the strait, its signaling pattern was inconsistent and haphazard at times, suggesting it turned off its transponders or issued inaccurate positioning signals to hide its path. “The Strait of Hormuz is currently too risky for legitimate shipowners to cross from a commercial standpoint as well as for safety of crew, which explains the dozens of tankers stuck waiting within the Gulf and unable to exit,” said Charlie Brown, an advisor to United Against Nuclear Iran, a US lobby and pressure group focused on Tehran.
They are operating without insurance. That’s really the hold-up on sailing through the strait. Most ships are waiting on the reissue of war risk insurance.
They’re absolutely operating with insurance. They’re just insured outside the west.