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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.

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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. 95%
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%
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. 94%
oil traffic through the strait of hormuz remains at a trickle while iran and oman are reported close to an arrangement on shipping, with iran conditioning it on changed us behavior. simultaneously a 274-metre sanctioned russian-flagged tanker holding roughly a million barrels is sinking near oman's hallaniyat islands, its slick spreading across hundreds of square kilometres. a negotiated reopening and a large uncontained spill are unfolding in the same water at the same time. 94%
the strait of hormuz remains largely closed to very large crude carriers despite ceasefire optimism, forcing charterers to reroute oil through oman and the red sea while iranian patrol activity continues. this is an unusual persistence of disruption in one of the world's most critical oil chokepoints even after diplomatic de-escalation signals. 94%
a foreign container ship ran aground in the strait of hormuz after transiting on a route iran had not approved, and tehran framed the grounding as enforcement of its own routing discipline in the world's most important oil chokepoint. tracking data the same day showed traffic splitting across iranian, omani, imo-designated, and dark unidentified routes. a single state unilaterally imposing corridor discipline on an international strait, with vessels visibly complying or hiding, is a structural change in how the chokepoint operates. 94%

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