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Cycle #116

◆ infrastructure 90% high

tanker transits through the strait of hormuz fell from over 70 per day to as few as 12 after iran declared the strait closed. war-risk insurance premiums rose from 0.15% to 5% of vessel value. roughly a fifth of the world's oil moves through this channel; a collapse of this scale is a structural chokepoint event, not a fluctuation.

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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%
only two supertankers transited the strait of hormuz on a single day, down from a pre-conflict average of 125-140 daily sailings, following intensified us-iran military activity. roughly a fifth of the world's oil normally moves through this passage; a near-standstill of this magnitude is a structural event, not a fluctuation. a handful of lng tankers re-entered to load cargo despite iranian attacks on shipping, a sign of how much money is willing to accept the risk. 95%
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. 95%
vessel traffic through the strait of hormuz, the passage for roughly a fifth of the world's oil, dropped as the us threatened strikes on iranian infrastructure. at the same time iran publicly alleged that us envoys witkoff and kushner made nine billion dollars trading on negotiation intelligence, and demanded a share. a chokepoint slowdown paired with a state formally accusing the other side's negotiators of insider profiteering is structurally rare. 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%
vessel transits through the strait of hormuz dropped from 74 ships on june 24 to 22 by june 28 — a 70% compression — following us military strikes on iran june 27-29. recovery began to approximately 24 vessels by june 30. the strait carries 20-25% of world seaborne oil, making a 70% four-day collapse a significant structural disruption to global energy logistics, not a routine fluctuation. 94%

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