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the strait of hormuz has been closed since march and red sea tanker traffic remains deeply depressed, pushing saudi arabia to route over four million barrels a day through the petroline pipeline to yanbu — which has now hit capacity. two of the world's main oil chokepoints being simultaneously unusable, with the overland alternative saturated, leaves no slack in the physical route.

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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%
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%
oil tanker traffic through the strait of hormuz stopped for a second consecutive day after iran's revolutionary guard claimed tankers struck mines and declared the strait closed, while undersea internet cables in the red sea were severed, disrupting connectivity across the middle east, india and pakistan. two of the planet's most critical chokepoints — one for energy, one for data — failed in the same 48 hours. countries as far away as thailand are already bracing for fuel and trade shock. 93%
the strait of hormuz and bab el-mandeb — the two narrow sea passages through which most gulf oil leaves for the world — are simultaneously effectively closed to tanker traffic, with saudi cargoes rerouted to india and bab el-mandeb transits falling from 28 vessels on friday to 18 on sunday. at the same time oil prices fell five percent to roughly $81 per barrel because trump announced a pause on strikes against iran. physical supply is being strangled and the price is going down; those two facts do not normally sit together. 93%
the strait of hormuz and the red sea corridor are degraded at the same time — houthi attacks on one side, the iran conflict on the other. normally when one oil route closes, tankers shift to the other; with both compromised, that relief mechanism is gone and an estimated 25% of global oil supply has no clean path. a hong kong supertanker reversing course at full speed before the bab el-mandeb, apparently because insurers refuse coverage, shows the market pricing this in physically, not just on paper. 93%
traffic through the strait of hormuz collapsed to three commodity vessels, a small fraction of normal flow, as iranian tanker attacks continued and ships halted or turned back. oil traders separately reported that global inventory buffers are exhausted. a chokepoint carrying roughly a fifth of the world's oil moving from headline risk to actual flow disruption is structurally rare — it has not happened at this scale in decades. 93%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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