An independent AIS-based tracker recorded the first same-day Strait of Hormuz crossings of 9 November, including a crude oil tanker, while the IMF's official PortWatch count has still not published a figure for the day. hormuz.now counted two AIS-visible commercial crossings as of about 18:41 UTC on Monday, both inbound (westbound into the Gulf) and none outbound: the 229-metre Liberian-flagged bulk carrier NIKI, 93,000 tonnes deadweight, crossed at 01:45 UTC with a declared destination of IR BKM, and the 228-metre Norway-flagged Panamax/LR1 crude oil tanker FELICITY, 71,000 tonnes deadweight, crossed at 05:26 UTC with a declared destination of Basrah, Iraq [1]. Eight further crossings by small craft outside the tracker's commercial definition were also logged [1].

The tracker's rolling seven-day average stands at 7.0 crossings a day against a pre-crisis baseline of 84.8, and it notes that IMF PortWatch has not yet published a November 9 figure because its data arrives several days late; the latest official PortWatch print remains a single transit on November 1 [1]. The tracker cautions that vessels switching off transponders, or whose GPS is jammed or spoofed, can be missed, so real traffic may be higher than the AIS-visible count [1].

These are vessel movements, not oil volumes. Neither source identifies cargo, and a crude-oil-tanker-class vessel crossing inbound to Basrah is not evidence that a commercial oil cargo passed through the strait; whether any commercial oil cargo currently transits Hormuz remains unconfirmed. The observation also sits in tension with Iran's claims, carried in prior coverage, that destroyed navigation aids halted tanker traffic on the southern route overnight - claims no maritime authority has verified. One inbound bulker declaring an Iranian destination is additionally notable under the US naval blockade on Iranian ports, though the tracker records destination declarations, not enforcement status. Fuel Signal's own live snapshot endpoint returned HTTP 503 throughout this run, so backend access and tanker fields could not be refreshed.