Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has slowed over the weekend after a commercial vessel was struck while transiting the waterway, and an exchange of strikes between the US and Iran strained their preliminary deal to end the conflict, Al Jazeera reports.

In total, 29 commodity vessels crossed on Saturday and 12 transited on Sunday, according to data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler.

The figures mark a sharp decline from last week, when a memorandum of understanding signed by Tehran and Washington boosted traffic through the strait to its highest level since the start of the war, reaching 70 crossings on Wednesday, according to Kpler.