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Cycle #152

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outbound tanker traffic through hormuz fell to four vessels per day from eight, after fourteen iranian attacks on commercial shipping since june 25. simultaneously, houthi threats are pushing saudi crude off red sea routes, adding up to four weeks of delivery time around africa. two of the world's most important maritime corridors are constricting at the same time, concentrating remaining traffic among a small pool of risk-tolerant operators.

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oil tankers in the strait of hormuz performed unexplained u-turns and shifted to the oman-side route despite a us-protected corridor, while a cargo vessel was attacked by armed assailants 30 nautical miles off hodeidah, yemen. separately, congestion at jeddah port is straining the overland alternative. the world's key oil chokepoints are all showing stress at once, even as india reports fertilizer shipments transiting hormuz safely — nervous behavior without a declared cause. 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. 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%
oil tanker attacks are now running simultaneously across three separate chokepoints: iranian attacks in the strait of hormuz, a houthi front in the red sea, and ukrainian strikes on over 150 russian vessels in the black sea. meanwhile hormuz shipping diversions have plateaued at four times pre-conflict baseline after twenty weeks, refusing the normal recovery curve where shipping routes heal after a shock. the global energy transit system is being attacked on three fronts at once and is not bouncing back. 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. 93%
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. 93%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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