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lng shipments resumed through the strait of hormuz and india lifted temporary gas curbs, easing a near-term supply shock — but a cma cgm container ship was damaged beyond repair by a missile strike in may, keeping the chokepoint's security premium elevated. surface resolution coexists with an unresolved physical-threat baseline on the world's most critical energy passage.

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a qatarenergy lng tanker crossed the strait of hormuz after an 18-day pause in transits, and separate coverage tracked gulf crude rerouting around two chokepoints via a single bypass pipeline. an 18-day gap in liquefied gas movement through the world's densest energy corridor is not routine; it means buyers and shippers treated the passage as unreliable for nearly three weeks. 91%
only two commercial vessels passed through the strait of hormuz in twenty-four hours, down from eight the previous day and 130-140 daily before the conflict. talks over a guaranteed safe-transit corridor are underway but shipowners are still refusing to treat the passage as safe. a near-total stop at the world's densest oil chokepoint is a physical fact, not a sentiment reading. 91%
the strait of hormuz — the route carrying roughly a fifth of the world's oil — saw only three commodity vessels cross on thursday as us-iran fighting resumed, and about 65 percent of the tankers still moving have disabled or manipulated their tracking signals. an iranian strike also damaged a power and desalination plant in kuwait, hitting drinking water supply in a desert state. the chokepoint is going both quiet and dark at the same time, which removes the visibility the world normally has into its most critical energy artery. 90%
shipping through the strait of hormuz has resumed after the us-iran ceasefire but vessel traffic remains far below normal, and a comoros-flagged container ship linked to an iranian business network ran aground in the chokepoint, with iran blaming the us. roughly a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes through this narrow waterway, so the gap between 'reopened' and 'trusted' is itself measurable — operators are voting with absent ships. 90%
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. 90%
the strait of hormuz and the bab el-mandeb — the two main maritime corridors for global oil — are under active disruption at the same time. us strikes hit iranian bridges near key ports for a seventh straight night, iranian tankers were reported destroyed, and us marines are boarding vessels in the strait. energy risk models were built around one chokepoint failing, not both simultaneously; rerouting capacity is limited. 90%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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