PANews reported on March 6 that, according to Jinshi, shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has almost completely ground to a halt, with throughput dropping to its lowest level since the crucial waterway was effectively closed over the weekend. A report released on March 6 by the Joint Maritime Information Center stated that recent assessments of shipping signals in the strait indicate that the number of vessels passing through has fallen to single digits, with only two confirmed commercial passages observed in the past 24 hours. According to this multinational maritime advisory group focused on the Middle East, these passages involved cargo ships, not oil tankers.