{"id":493,"date":"2026-08-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/kharg-island-lpg-terminal-reactivates-after-23-vacant-days\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:00:00","slug":"kharg-island-lpg-terminal-reactivates-after-23-vacant-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/kharg-island-lpg-terminal-reactivates-after-23-vacant-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Kharg Island LPG Terminal Reactivates After 23 Vacant Days as Laden Tankers Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite analysis dated <strong>19 August 2026<\/strong> shows Kharg Island\u2019s Sulphur and LPG terminal receiving its first dark berth contact in 23 consecutive days, while large volumes of laden Iranian crude remain stacked in the offshore waiting area amid the U.S. naval blockade and Hormuz disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier imagery on 17 August had shown all three Kharg terminals vacant, with the eastern oil terminal empty for weeks. Confirmed laden vessels in the waiting area were assessed near <strong>20.7 million barrels<\/strong>, with a possible higher total if additional vessels of unknown load status are also full. A net draw of waiting tankers between 17 and 19 August suggests limited movement even as LPG\/sulphur activity flickered back.<\/p>\n<h2>What Operators Should Note<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Terminal reactivation does not equal normalised Hormuz transit risk<\/strong> for commercial fleets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watch dark waiting-area tonnage<\/strong> for sanctions, STS and pollution exposure.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Factor prolonged anchorage delays<\/strong> into Iran-linked or Gulf export planning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treat Kharg occupancy swings as blockade and routing indicators<\/strong>, not freight green lights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RegulAs Shipping will track further Kharg berth activity and waiting-area inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAR imagery on 19 August showed the first berth activity at Kharg\u2019s Sulphur and LPG terminal in 23 days, while roughly 20.7 million barrels of confirmed laden crude remained waiting offshore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-industry","category-maritime-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}