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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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commercial traffic through the strait of hormuz has dropped sharply after a series of iranian attacks on ships since july 6, with crews now reluctant to transit; iran's irgc navy separately claimed it halted four unidentified vessels with missiles and drones on july 18. roughly a fifth of the world's oil passes through this strait, and a sustained voluntary avoidance by commercial crews is structurally different from a formal blockade — the chokepoint is closing itself. 95%
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%
the world's most important oil chokepoint has stopped being observable. after a third round of us strikes on iran following an attack that set a cyprus-flagged container ship on fire, no cargo vessel over 10,000 tons has crossed the strait of hormuz with its tracking transponder active since july 7. global maritime traffic through this corridor now moves in the dark — trade continuing but deliberately invisible is structurally rare at this scale. 94%
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%
traffic through the strait of hormuz fell for a third consecutive day, with one tracking firm counting only five vessels crossing after us strikes on iran — a waterway that normally carries roughly a fifth of the world's traded oil and gas. the us is reportedly pressing iran to publicly guarantee shipping safety, which means the reopening is now a diplomatic negotiation, not a market decision. chokepoints this large almost never go quiet; when they do, the silence itself is the event. 93%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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