Shipping activities in the Strait of Hormuz are recovering as 24 commodity ships passed through the global energy chokepoint on Monday, according to data from maritime analytics company Kpler.
The ships included oil tankers and liquefied natural gas carriers, as well as bulk carriers.
The data also showed that shipping activities in the strait continued to recover on Tuesday, with a giant oil tanker and several small ships entering the Gulf.
The total carrying capacity of the oil tankers passing through the strait was approximately 11 million barrels of crude oil, which indicates shipowners' increasing confidence in tansiting through the strategic waterway.
Also on Tuesday, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned that although the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will relieve global energy supply pressure in the short term, many vulnerable economies will still face the impact of long-term rising food and fuel prices.
Hormuz shipping activities recovering: Kpler data
As the year 2026 marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), figures from international communist parties extended their congratulations and hailed the CPC's achievements in leading China's development and governance.
Jiri Mantysalo, vice chairman of the Communist Party of Finland, who personally visited China last year, highlighted the CPC’s flexibility in addressing challenges from modern Marxist perspective.
"The CPC has been flexible, I would say, to address challenges in society but with modern Marxism perspective in my opinion. For me it's crystal clear that without the CPC, China would not be able to see this kind of development. The Communist Party of China has built and is still building its policy through clear vision of improving people's life and also advancing the harmony between humans and the environment, nature," he said.
Francesco Maringio, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Italy, said the CPC has always adhered to its original aspiration of steering China toward national rejuvenation.
"I think in Chinese, the expression is 'Buwang Chuxin,' (meaning) never forget (why) you started. So, this path from 1921 to now is the extraordinary path made by the CPC. This party doesn't just administer the country, but it steers the country itself," he said.
"It's a leadership understood in ideological terms, (a party) who has put the study of Marxism back to the center of party work, because this is in this era demands theoretically clarity, not just management competence. So in one sentence, the CPC today is extremely selective, increasingly educated vanguard of the society with a clear structure and identity, tasked with steering the country toward national rejuvenation, not just administrating a large and huge country," Maringio said.
A gathering marking the 105th founding anniversary of the CPC was held at the Great Hall of the People on Wednesday morning in Beijing. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, attended the event.
Figures of int'l communist parties hail CPC's achievements over past 105 years
