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Cycle #19

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in the strait of hormuz, only five vessels were detected by automatic identification system over a 24-hour window on june 10-11 — the second straight drop and the lowest count since hostilities began. ships are reported running without ais signals and iranian military patrols are expanding. a near-empty shipping lane in one of the world's busiest oil chokepoints is a structural anomaly, whether from vessels hiding or staying away.

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shipping traffic through the strait of hormuz collapsed following iran-us strikes. 62% of india-bound vessels disabled ais tracking; only 5 vessels transited the us-assisted corridor on one sunday compared to pre-conflict norms of hundreds per day. the chokepoint handles a significant share of global energy flows, and running below half normal levels for multiple days is structurally unusual. 94%
tanker transits through the strait of hormuz fell to two vessels on july 9 after renewed us airstrikes on iran and retaliation, with ships switching off ais transponders to hide their movements. hormuz is the chokepoint for a large share of seaborne oil. a near-total halt combined with vessels going dark is a sharp physical-layer stress signal. 94%
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%
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%
shipping through the strait of hormuz fell to roughly 14-23 vessels per day from a baseline near 138 as us-iran military strikes escalated. many vessels switched off their tracking transponders, meaning the true movement is now partly invisible. a channel carrying a large share of the world's seaborne oil going near-silent is a structural event. 93%
iran announced the strait of hormuz closed on june 22, citing ceasefire violations after israeli strikes in lebanon. daily vessel transits dropped from 35 to 12 in one day, with five of eight inbound ships running dark ais. the strait handles roughly 20% of global seaborne oil; a single-day transit collapse of this magnitude is structurally unusual regardless of whether the closure holds. 92%

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