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traffic through the strait of hormuz fell to eight vessels in one day against a historical average of about 140, and liquefied natural gas exports through the corridor dropped 95 percent. the same passage carries roughly a quarter of seaborne oil and a third of traded urea fertilizer, so the disruption reaches food inputs as well as energy.

gulf maritime and commodity trade reporting

#chokepoint#shipping#lng#fertilizer

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traffic through the strait of hormuz collapsed to three commodity vessels, a small fraction of normal flow, as iranian tanker attacks continued and ships halted or turned back. oil traders separately reported that global inventory buffers are exhausted. a chokepoint carrying roughly a fifth of the world's oil moving from headline risk to actual flow disruption is structurally rare — it has not happened at this scale in decades. 94%
traffic through the strait of hormuz — the narrow sea passage carrying much of the world's oil — fell to between nine and twelve vessels in a day, against more than a hundred before the iran-us war. iran declared the waterway closed, a tanker was struck by a projectile off oman, and five of eight entering vessels switched off their automatic identification transponders. going dark at scale in a monitored chokepoint is unusual: it means ships would rather be invisible than tracked. 94%
tanker transits through the strait of hormuz fell from 47 to 23 vessels in one week after attacks on commercial ships, with gps/ais spoofing returning to the waterway. roughly a fifth of the world's oil moves through this channel, and traffic halving in seven days is a structural shock, not a fluctuation — though loaded lng carriers from qatar still made the passage, keeping european gas prices contained. 93%
ship traffic through the strait of hormuz fell from 26 vessels to 5 in a single day after iran announced the waterway was closed, citing israeli and us violations. the us disputed the closure claim. the strait carries roughly a fifth of global seaborne oil, and a one-day drop of this magnitude — contested by both governments — is structurally unusual regardless of which account is accurate. 93%
only two commercial vessels passed through the strait of hormuz in twenty-four hours, down from eight the previous day and 130-140 daily before the conflict. talks over a guaranteed safe-transit corridor are underway but shipowners are still refusing to treat the passage as safe. a near-total stop at the world's densest oil chokepoint is a physical fact, not a sentiment reading. 93%
only two supertankers transited the strait of hormuz on a single day, down from a pre-conflict average of 125-140 daily sailings, following intensified us-iran military activity. roughly a fifth of the world's oil normally moves through this passage; a near-standstill of this magnitude is a structural event, not a fluctuation. a handful of lng tankers re-entered to load cargo despite iranian attacks on shipping, a sign of how much money is willing to accept the risk. 93%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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