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commercial shipping through the strait of hormuz collapsed to near zero between june 11 and 14, with only one crossing detected on tracking systems. a major japanese operator announced a multiweek suspension of transits pending confidence in a u.s.-iran deal. a near-total halt of traffic through one of the world's busiest oil chokepoints, driven by anticipation rather than a closure order, is structurally unusual.

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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. 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. 94%
iran announced closure of the strait of hormuz and vessel traffic through the waterway fell to near-record lows — 14 crossings against a baseline of roughly 138 per day, with six vessels transiting with transponders switched off. roughly a fifth of the world's oil moves through this channel; a functional shutdown of it is a rare, structurally significant event, and dark crossings suggest some operators are running the closure anyway. 94%
iran announced the strait of hormuz closed on june 22, citing ceasefire violations after israeli strikes in lebanon. daily vessel transits dropped from 35 to 12 in one day, with five of eight inbound ships running dark ais. the strait handles roughly 20% of global seaborne oil; a single-day transit collapse of this magnitude is structurally unusual regardless of whether the closure holds. 94%
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. 94%
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. 94%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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