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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.

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#hormuz#oil#shipping#us-iran

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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. 96%
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. 96%
vessel transits through the strait of hormuz dropped from 74 ships on june 24 to 22 by june 28 — a 70% compression — following us military strikes on iran june 27-29. recovery began to approximately 24 vessels by june 30. the strait carries 20-25% of world seaborne oil, making a 70% four-day collapse a significant structural disruption to global energy logistics, not a routine fluctuation. 95%
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. 95%
cargo and tanker bookings through the strait of hormuz halted after renewed us airstrikes on iran and iranian retaliation shattered a ceasefire that had held since june 18. the persian gulf is the chokepoint for a large share of the world's seaborne oil, so a full traffic halt there is a rare physical-layer event, not just a diplomatic one. 95%
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%

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