2 Indian LPG tankers, Pine Gas and Jag Vasant, take unusual route to cross Hormuz
India Today
Two LPG tankers tracked by India Today's OSINT team have taken the new route via Larak-Qeshm to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
Six liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tankers and one liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier bound for India were anchored near the Strait of Hormuz after the US war on Iran began. On Monday morning, two of them, Pine Gas and Jag Vasant, took an unusual route to cross the strait and head home. Two LPG tankers crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday morning, as per ship-tracking data reviewed by India today's OSINT team.
India Today tracked the positions of LPG tankers in the Gulf and found that these vessels were crossing the Strait of Hormuz via the Qeshm–Larak channel, rather than taking the shorter and straighter conventional path into the Arabian Sea. Five others have shown little movement from their last reported positions.
As they began their journey home, both vessels sailing close to one another changed their onboard messaging, shifting from generic identifiers such as “IND SHIP AND CREW” and “ALL INDIA CREW” to more specific signals like “PINE GAS INDIAN SHIP” and “JGVASNTINDSHIPINDCRW” while transiting via the Larak channel. This indicates that these tankers had possibly received prior approval from Iranian authorities to cross, and were explicitly broadcasting their identities to reduce the risk of being targeted while passing through the channel. India Today tracked the position of six LPG and one LNG tankers stranded in the Gulf, as on March 23, 2026, 2 PM. Source: Marine Traffic
India has been engaged with Iran at the diplomatic level for safe passage of Indian ships through the Strait of Hormuz, which helped two LPG tankers, Shivalik and Nanda Devi, to transit the strait a few days back.
Jag Vasant, owned and operated by the Mumbai-based Great Eastern Shipping Company, was chartered by public sector refiner Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), while Pine Gas, owned and operated by Mumbai-based Seven Islands Shipping, was chartered by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), as per publicly available details.
Vessel tracking data indicates that both LPG tankers likely began their voyage to India between Sunday night and Monday morning, and are expected to arrive in about three days.
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