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colombia's main pacific port at buenaventura is under heavy operational limits after the august 10 earthquake, with at least one major carrier evaluating alternate discharge ports. the quake is reported at magnitude 7.4, described as the largest recorded in the country. one of the two ocean-facing gateways of a continent's northwest corner is degraded at the same time hormuz is disrupted.

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tanker traffic through the strait of hormuz fell to its lowest level in more than two months, with owners switching off transponders, aborting transits, or avoiding the passage after attacks and threats, following the collapse of a us–iran understanding. separately, honduras lost about 17% of its visible internet routes for over two hours in a control-plane failure. one is deliberate avoidance of a chokepoint, the other an unexplained routing gap — both are the world's plumbing showing stress. 86%
on june 14 the strait of hormuz — one of the world's most important oil and shipping chokepoints — experienced extreme congestion with thousands of vessels stranded under what is described as selective passage controls. uk, france, germany, singapore, australia, south africa and egypt launched a coordinated emergency maritime rescue operation, a multinational scale of response that itself signals the waterway is not functioning normally. 86%
large vessels stopped crossing the strait of hormuz along the us-coordinated southern lane, with traceable transits grinding to a halt since tuesday amid renewed us-iran fighting. simultaneously typhoon dolphin shut chinese ports, leaving 4-7 day waits at shanghai and 3-5 at ningbo with over 200 ships and 2.4m teu caught up. two of the world's densest maritime chokepoints degraded in the same week for unrelated reasons. 86%
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. 86%
the constraint layer shifted from supply to delivery. record-low rhine water levels interrupted raw material flow to europe's largest steelmaking plant, nigeria's regulator disclosed 5,000 fiber optic cuts costing the digital economy billions, a colombian earthquake halted exports at buenaventura port, and ai data center operators reported their primary bottleneck is now utility interconnection timelines of several years rather than energy availability. four unrelated geographies, one pattern: the physical connection, not the resource, is the limit. 85%
vessel counts through the strait of hormuz dropped to single digits per day — eight on sunday, eleven on saturday — while attacks intensified on the red sea alternative route. separately, roughly four in five ships transiting bab el-mandeb are now negotiating passage rather than running it, and the tanker market is having its second-best year on record. two of the world's most important maritime chokepoints are being managed by permission and price rather than by force. 85%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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