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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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the red sea degraded on two layers at once: only 11 commodity vessels transited bab el-mandeb on july 26, a months-long low following houthi attacks on saudi oil facilities, and multiple undersea fiber cables in the same waters were cut, disrupting internet across the middle east and south asia including microsoft azure services. a single chokepoint failing simultaneously for physical cargo and data traffic is structurally rare — the same narrow strait carries both. 91%
three maritime chokepoints degraded simultaneously — black sea trade choked by russia-ukraine strikes, red sea and bab el-mandeb transit disrupted forcing rerouting of cargoes including nigeria lng, alongside renewed attention to submarine cable fragility. a council report frames conflict-driven chokepoint disruption as a now-recurring structural feature rather than isolated events. 90%
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. 90%
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. 89%
traffic through the strait of hormuz dropped to six vessels in a single day, against a ten-day average of eleven, attributed to continuing security risk. on the same day, maersk and hapag-lloyd returned four container services to the red sea and suez canal after more than two years of diverting around the cape of good hope. two chokepoints moving in opposite directions at once is structurally unusual: one reopening as the other constricts. 89%
reinsurers and protection-and-indemnity clubs are withdrawing coverage across the strait of hormuz, red sea, and black sea, which shuts shipping corridors commercially within about 72 hours — before any military assessment of actual risk. this means the insurance layer, not the physical threat, is now the faster mechanism closing global sea lanes. traffic through bab el-mandeb has dropped to roughly 31 crossings a day from 43 earlier in july. 89%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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