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commercial vessel transits through the strait of hormuz rose 50% week-over-week after the june 14 us-iran deal, but traffic remains roughly 70% below pre-conflict levels, showing a fragile partial recovery rather than normalization. this is a concrete measure of how slowly a major chokepoint rebuilds trust after military de-escalation.

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traffic through the strait of hormuz quadrupled as shipping confidence returned following the us-iran ceasefire, with a backlog expected to take weeks to clear and more than 8,000 non-gulf sailors still stranded. a chokepoint carrying a fifth of global oil going from near-empty to congested in days shows how fast physical trade repriced a single diplomatic signal. the european central bank separately confirmed its rate decision preceded the ceasefire by ten days, placing monetary policy and the supply shock on overlapping clocks. 94%
tanker traffic through the strait of hormuz climbed 270% week-on-week after a 60-day us-iran ceasefire framework, recovering from near-standstill — but 8,000 crew remain stranded and fresh attacks are already testing the agreement. a fifth of global oil flow is moving again on a truce that is being probed in real time, which makes the recovery more fragile than the traffic numbers suggest. 94%
the strait of hormuz has operated at roughly 5% of normal traffic since late february, with satellite imagery now showing the us conducting at least 90 million barrels of ship-to-ship oil transfers offshore using methods that mirror iranian sanctions-evasion tactics. shipping industry executives warn that reopening will require safely moving 500 backed-up crude tankers and container ships through a waterway still suspected of containing mines, and that the terms of any us-iran pact remain unclear. this combination — a three-month chokepoint closure, covert workaround logistics at scale, and a chaotic reopening window — represents a structural disruption to global energy transport with no clean resolution path visible. 93%
vessel transits through the strait of hormuz dropped from 74 ships on june 24 to 22 by june 28 — a 70% compression — following us military strikes on iran june 27-29. recovery began to approximately 24 vessels by june 30. the strait carries 20-25% of world seaborne oil, making a 70% four-day collapse a significant structural disruption to global energy logistics, not a routine fluctuation. 93%
the strait of hormuz reopened june 18 as part of a us-iran 60-day ceasefire memorandum; major vessels moved through for the first time in 110 days after sitting stranded since february. this is structurally significant because the strait carries roughly 20% of global oil shipments — the length of the closure and the abruptness of its resolution both represent unusual disruption to a critical chokepoint. the ceasefire is interim; the physical layer has restarted but the political layer remains unresolved. 93%
shipping through the strait of hormuz has resumed after the us-iran ceasefire but vessel traffic remains far below normal, and a comoros-flagged container ship linked to an iranian business network ran aground in the chokepoint, with iran blaming the us. roughly a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes through this narrow waterway, so the gap between 'reopened' and 'trusted' is itself measurable — operators are voting with absent ships. 93%

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