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Cycle #68

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between may 1 and june 25 2026, over 60% of india-bound tankers transiting the strait of hormuz disabled their automatic identification system transponders — 45 of 73 tracked vessels went dark in coordinated fashion to reduce exposure during active conflict. simultaneously, supertanker traffic physically resumed on june 30–july 1, with vessels carrying roughly 11 million barrels transiting despite ongoing iranian revolutionary guard patrols and prior merchant ship attacks. two contradictory behaviors — concealment and resumption — operating in the same chokepoint at the same time.

#strait of hormuz#ais dark#tanker traffic#iran#maritime

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62% of india-bound tankers transiting the strait of hormuz disabled their ais transponders in a single reporting window — a mass voluntary blackout at a scale not previously recorded on this waterway. vessels going dark indicates maritime operators are pricing in imminent attack risk regardless of the formal ceasefire. separately, hormuz traffic remains at roughly 30% of prewar levels, with only 124 ship transits across four days against a historical baseline exceeding 100 per day. 95%
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. 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%
satellite tracking services report near-zero non-iranian vessel traffic through the strait of hormuz, with three indian supertankers attempting transit and retreating to the gulf of oman with unclear status, while washington and tehran are both claiming the waterway's status in contradictory terms. the divergence between observed shipping behavior and official narratives from both sides is structurally unusual — the ambiguity itself functions as a supply chain disruption signal regardless of the ground truth, because routing decisions must be made under uncertainty. 93%
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. 92%
hormuz strait traffic remains fragmented at roughly 85 percent below the pre-war baseline of 130-140 daily crossings; vessels shifted to an iran-designated route after irgc warnings on july 5, then partly resumed the omani corridor a day later. a cargo vessel was also attacked ~55km southwest of hodeidah in the red sea, the bypass route now carrying middle east oil. the inconsistent rerouting suggests tactical improvisation by shippers rather than any resolution. 92%

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