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Cycle #90

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maersk suspended all transshipment through djibouti's port of doraleh over red sea attacks, stretching delivery cycles from 28 to 52 days with rising war-risk surcharges; meanwhile starlink deactivated thousands of terminals in resistance-held myanmar during a cyber-scam crackdown, cutting connectivity for civilians and fighters alike. two chokepoints — one maritime, one orbital — narrowed in the same week, each controlled by a single company's decision.

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62% of india-bound tankers transiting the strait of hormuz disabled their ais transponders in a single reporting window — a mass voluntary blackout at a scale not previously recorded on this waterway. vessels going dark indicates maritime operators are pricing in imminent attack risk regardless of the formal ceasefire. separately, hormuz traffic remains at roughly 30% of prewar levels, with only 124 ship transits across four days against a historical baseline exceeding 100 per day. 89%
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. 88%
between may 1 and june 25 2026, over 60% of india-bound tankers transiting the strait of hormuz disabled their automatic identification system transponders — 45 of 73 tracked vessels went dark in coordinated fashion to reduce exposure during active conflict. simultaneously, supertanker traffic physically resumed on june 30–july 1, with vessels carrying roughly 11 million barrels transiting despite ongoing iranian revolutionary guard patrols and prior merchant ship attacks. two contradictory behaviors — concealment and resumption — operating in the same chokepoint at the same time. 88%
a qatari lng tanker was hit by a projectile off oman, four tankers turned back from strait of hormuz transit, and the us revoked iran's oil license after striking iranian targets. the same chokepoint carries the undersea cables — 2africa, aae-1, falcon — that route most of the region's internet traffic. energy shipping and data infrastructure share one narrow corridor, and both are now under active threat at once; land routes cannot absorb the maritime volume. 88%
commercial shipping through the strait of hormuz has fallen to extremely low levels despite the waterway remaining officially open and operational, with persistent dark-vessel activity and expanding military enforcement. traffic collapsing while the strait stays nominally open is the signature of pressure rather than closure. 88%
shipping traffic through the strait of hormuz collapsed following iran-us strikes. 62% of india-bound vessels disabled ais tracking; only 5 vessels transited the us-assisted corridor on one sunday compared to pre-conflict norms of hundreds per day. the chokepoint handles a significant share of global energy flows, and running below half normal levels for multiple days is structurally unusual. 88%

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