At least seven ships — mainly dry bulk vessels — crossed the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, in line with muted activity in recent days, shipping data shows, while talks between Iran and the United States have stalled, Reuters reports.

The vessels have included ships leaving from Iraqi ports and one dry bulk vessel from an Iranian port, according to ship tracking data from Kpler and separate satellite analysis from data analytics specialists SynMax.

Shipping traffic passing through the crucial waterway at the entrance to the Gulf during an uneasy ceasefire between Washington and Tehran represents a fraction of the average 140 daily passages before the US-Israel war against Iran began on February 28.