4 Bahri ships pass through Hormuz... Saudi Arabia coordinating with the US

Saudi shipping company Bahri (4030) said four of its vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, with CEO Khalid Alhammad telling a Dubai event that energy transport must continue and that Riyadh is coordinating with Washington at the government level to support passage through the waterway, per Bloomberg. The disclosure covers government-to-government cooperation and does not state whether the U.S. Navy directly escorted individual ships, so the four transits alone do not establish that navigation through the strait as a whole is safe. The update matters because Hormuz is the main export chokepoint for Gulf crude, and any confirmed resumption of transits by major tanker operators would ease concerns about flows. Saudi Arabia is also raising exports via the Red Sea port of Yanbu while loading cargoes inside the Persian Gulf. Watch for further Bahri and peer transits, any formal U.S. escort arrangements, and whether more volumes shift to the Red Sea route.