PHOTO: REUTERS[NEW DELHI] Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to six on Monday, compared with a 10-day average of about 11 vessels, shipping data showed, amid fading hopes of a peace deal between the US and Iran. Four commodity vessels, including two empty oil product tankers, entered the waterway, data from Kpler showed on Tuesday as at 0420 GMT. Two vessels – a small tanker laden with liquefied petroleum gas and another carrying residual fuels – exited the Strait, the data showed. On Monday, 25 vessels transited the Bab el-Mandeb strait on the Red Sea, broadly unchanged when compared with the 10-day average of nearly 24 ships, Kpler data showed. Since the war began in February, Trump has repeatedly swung between threats of escalation and assertions that a peace deal is close.