Breaking
Mother dies of cancer in May, father collapses this morningUSIM students sweep Negeri Sembilan consumer contestsWhat Is Nuclear Energy, and Why Is It Making a Comeback?Melaka BN to get custom election formula says ZahidClosure of al-Makha port leaves 1,500 workers jobless after Houthi strikesUMNO-PAS cooperation aimed only at seizing Anwar's power, claims Amanah youth wingMalaysia U-17 women exit Merdeka Cup after 5-1 semi-final loss to ThailandOutrage as China rules programmer's toilet death non-work-relatedSocial assistance spending rises 6.1% in 2025PalawanPay to launch physical Visa card in Q4Kelas Sekejap expands AI learning app to schools and enterprisesGoogle offers 12-month free AI Plus subscription to Malaysian studentsPoverty rate falls to single digits in the Philippines as incomes outpace thresholdsChinese insurer Ping An eyes Hong Kong ETFs as Beijing greenlights cross-border investmentSickKids discloses data breach exposing employee and job applicant detailsGitLab’s critical CVE-2026-19478 is under active exploitation within days of disclosure.Khazanah affirms governance push after third-quarter board meetingQR code payments launched for ShopeePay users in ChinaBanjarbaru delays school start times as haze worsensLuxury sales drop more than 10% in China as tax crackdown bitesMother dies of cancer in May, father collapses this morningUSIM students sweep Negeri Sembilan consumer contestsWhat Is Nuclear Energy, and Why Is It Making a Comeback?Melaka BN to get custom election formula says ZahidClosure of al-Makha port leaves 1,500 workers jobless after Houthi strikesUMNO-PAS cooperation aimed only at seizing Anwar's power, claims Amanah youth wingMalaysia U-17 women exit Merdeka Cup after 5-1 semi-final loss to ThailandOutrage as China rules programmer's toilet death non-work-relatedSocial assistance spending rises 6.1% in 2025PalawanPay to launch physical Visa card in Q4Kelas Sekejap expands AI learning app to schools and enterprisesGoogle offers 12-month free AI Plus subscription to Malaysian studentsPoverty rate falls to single digits in the Philippines as incomes outpace thresholdsChinese insurer Ping An eyes Hong Kong ETFs as Beijing greenlights cross-border investmentSickKids discloses data breach exposing employee and job applicant detailsGitLab’s critical CVE-2026-19478 is under active exploitation within days of disclosure.Khazanah affirms governance push after third-quarter board meetingQR code payments launched for ShopeePay users in ChinaBanjarbaru delays school start times as haze worsensLuxury sales drop more than 10% in China as tax crackdown bites
Economy

Saudi Aramco resumes oil shipments through Strait of Hormuz

Saudi Aramco has restarted oil loadings at Strait of Hormuz terminals after a three-week halt, shipping two million barrels each on three Malaysian, Algerian and Singapore-flagged VLCCs last week.

Source: Utusan Malaysia · August 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM · AI-assisted report

Corroborated
Saudi Aramco resumes oil shipments through Strait of Hormuz
Photo: Brocken Inaglory / CC BY-SA 3.0

SINGAPORE, 19 AUGUST 2026 —

Listen to this article

DomainFork Audio · read aloud

Saudi Aramco has restarted oil loadings at Strait of Hormuz terminals after a three-week halt, shipping two million barrels each on three Malaysian, Algerian and Singapore-flagged VLCCs last week.

Market Impact

Vessels Malaysia Prosperity, Algeria Prosperity and Singapore Prosperity lifted crude from Juaymah and Ras Tanura between Aug 12 and Aug 16, according to ship-tracking data from Vortexa and Kpler cited by Reuters. The cargoes were offered to Asian refiners for ship-to-ship transfer off Fujairah, UAE, on Monday, the company said in a tender seen by Reuters.

Loadings had been suspended following attacks on Saudi tankers in Hormuz amid heightened U.S.-Iran tensions, tightening global supplies of heavy crude used for shipping fuel and feedstock for gasoline and diesel. Kpler data shows at least six additional VLCCs are scheduled to load Saudi crude through Hormuz by month-end.

Saudi Aramco is also diverting volumes to Egypt’s Sidi Kerir terminal on the Mediterranean as an alternative route, but throughput remains far below the roughly four million barrels a day previously handled at Yanbu during Red Sea restrictions imposed by Yemen’s Houthi group. Higher freight costs and longer voyages have further dampened buyer interest, traders said.

Saudi tanker operator Bahri had seven VLCCs anchored off UAE and Oman and two more en route to Fujairah on Tuesday, according to LSEG ship-position data. Aramco and Sinokor, the owner of the loaded VLCCs, declined to comment.

Related: Sea · Singapore

Reporting based on Utusan Malaysia. Figures and claims are subject to revision as the story develops. DomainFork publishes editorial context, not investment advice — see our editorial standards.