Which two vessels are highlighted in the news as having recently exited the Strait of Hormuz, and where are they headed?

The LNG tanker Fuwairit is exiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and is expected to discharge its cargo in Pakistan on Tuesday; it loaded LNG at Qatar's Ras Laffan port around March 28. Separately, the VLCC Eagle Verona exited the strait on Saturday and is expected to reach Ningbo port in eastern China on June 12 to discharge nearly 2 million barrels of Basrah crude loaded around February 26.

How has the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran affected shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, and what is the current scale of disruption?

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which began on February 28, has severely curtailed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a critical chokepoint handling around one-fifth of the world’s oil and LNG supply — reducing daily passages from a pre-war average of 125 to 140 to only a handful of supertankers exiting the Gulf this month; approximately 20,000 seafarers remain stranded aboard hundreds of ships inside the Gulf.

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