British Maritime Trade Operations Center: Vessel traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is still 70% less than before the war The British Maritime Trade Operations Center announced in its latest weekly report that ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is still about 70% lower than before the start of the Iran war, although the number of passing vessels has increased in the past week. According to this report, published on Friday, October 30, in the seven days ending on October 28, a total of 277 incoming and outgoing traffic was recorded in the Strait of Hormuz. Also, the center announced that since the beginning of the war on February 28, 122 reports of damage to vessels and 77 cases of deaths or injuries in maritime incidents in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman have been recorded. According to this maritime organization, since July 6, 59 out of 81 cases of missile attacks on vessels have occurred in the southern lane of the Strait of Hormuz. This report also discussed the situation of the Belmandab strait and the Red Sea and announced that ship traffic in Belmandab is still 24% less than before the announcement of the Houthi naval blockade on July 22. It said no attacks on ships were reported in this area last week, and the last recorded attack was on the southern level of Babelmandev and the Red Level, however, on August 24. The Gulf of Aden remains "significant". The UK Maritime Operations Center stressed that its statistics are incomplete and that some incidents are not recorded in the published data.