Jun 15, 2026, 12:49 PM EDT
Senior administration officials said Monday that the Strait of Hormuz should be fully open by Friday.
“In terms of returning traffic, I mean, we’ve been maybe getting as much as 25 ships through a day, you know. Now that we’re through, I think they’ll probably go to, you know, maybe 40 to 50 pretty quickly,” an official said. “… By Friday, everything will be fully open. I think it will adjust very, very quickly, and I think obviously the prioritization will be on the heavy tankers, you know, the gas, the oils. I think that will actually flow very quickly.”
“Just to be clear here, it takes a little bit of time, because you know you have mines in the Straits,” the official continued. “But you will see significant increase in traffic in the Strait of Hormuz actually starting already, and that will ramp up slowly over time to the point where I think a week from now, two weeks from now, we probably won’t return to normal in two weeks, but we will see a significant increase in Strait traffic.”
The official made clear that the memorandum of understanding ensured the Strait of Hormuz be “toll-free for 60 days,” with the expectation that it will become part of the “final agreement, as well.”
President Donald Trump, during a press spray with French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7, told reporters that the Strait of Hormuz is “already partially open” and said “on Friday, it will be completely opened.”
-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart
