Several US Navy ships transited the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, a US official told Axios, the first such transit since the start of the war with Iran. This route was not coordinated with Tehran.US President Donald Trump said the United States has begun efforts to clear the Strait of Hormuz to ensure global oil supply, calling it “a favor to countries around the world”. He criticized other countries for lacking the “courage or will” to act themselves and said that empty oil tankers from many countries were heading to the United States to load crude.Trump had previously said the Strait of Hormuz would reopen “fairly soon” with or without Iran’s assistance, as Tehran’s effective blockade of the key waterway is disrupting global energy supplies.Trump said the United States would “open the Gulf”, noting that other countries were also ready to “help”.Earlier on Saturday, a Greek ship passed through the strait, hours after two Chinese supertankers passed through the narrow chokepoint, Bloomberg reported, while peace talks between the US and Iran are underway in Pakistan.The increase in tanker movements marked the largest day of oil shipments through the strait since the conflict began.The development comes days after Washington and Tehran announced a two-week temporary ceasefire to end the month-long conflict in the Middle East. Bloomberg reported that no ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz are carrying Iranian oil or have direct ties to Iran, even though most of the region’s crude supplies since the conflict began have come from the Islamic Republic.The three tankers have a combined capacity of about 6 million barrels of crude, but the total oil flow is well below peacetime levels, about half the normal shipment rate for a day.Meanwhile, India-flagged LPG tanker Jag Vikram also transited the strait, the first transit by an Indian ship after the ceasefire was announced.At least 28 India-flagged ships were in the Strait of Hormuz area when the conflict broke out in West Asia, including 24 on the western side of the waterway and four on the eastern side.Shipping tracking data shows that since the ceasefire began, only 22 ships with automatic identification systems have transited the Strait of Hormuz, compared with about 135 daily transits before the war, as cited by Al Jazeera.According to Lloyd’s List intelligence, more than 600 ships, including 325 tankers, are stranded in the gulf.