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tanker traffic through the strait of hormuz climbed 270% week-on-week after a 60-day us-iran ceasefire framework, recovering from near-standstill — but 8,000 crew remain stranded and fresh attacks are already testing the agreement. a fifth of global oil flow is moving again on a truce that is being probed in real time, which makes the recovery more fragile than the traffic numbers suggest.

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traffic through the strait of hormuz quadrupled as shipping confidence returned following the us-iran ceasefire, with a backlog expected to take weeks to clear and more than 8,000 non-gulf sailors still stranded. a chokepoint carrying a fifth of global oil going from near-empty to congested in days shows how fast physical trade repriced a single diplomatic signal. the european central bank separately confirmed its rate decision preceded the ceasefire by ten days, placing monetary policy and the supply shock on overlapping clocks. 96%
cargo and tanker bookings through the strait of hormuz halted after renewed us airstrikes on iran and iranian retaliation shattered a ceasefire that had held since june 18. the persian gulf is the chokepoint for a large share of the world's seaborne oil, so a full traffic halt there is a rare physical-layer event, not just a diplomatic one. 94%
the strait of hormuz reopened june 18 as part of a us-iran 60-day ceasefire memorandum; major vessels moved through for the first time in 110 days after sitting stranded since february. this is structurally significant because the strait carries roughly 20% of global oil shipments — the length of the closure and the abruptness of its resolution both represent unusual disruption to a critical chokepoint. the ceasefire is interim; the physical layer has restarted but the political layer remains unresolved. 94%
commercial vessel transits through the strait of hormuz rose 50% week-over-week after the june 14 us-iran deal, but traffic remains roughly 70% below pre-conflict levels, showing a fragile partial recovery rather than normalization. this is a concrete measure of how slowly a major chokepoint rebuilds trust after military de-escalation. 94%
25 commercial vessels crossed the strait of hormuz on thursday — the highest single-day count in two months — following a us-iran ceasefire agreement. separately, seven iranian supertankers carrying capacity for 14 million barrels exited the port of chabahar on friday, compared to four over the prior two days combined. the strait and chabahar together represent the primary chokepoint for iranian oil export; simultaneous movement at both nodes in one day marks a meaningful reopening of the physical energy corridor. 94%
shipping through the strait of hormuz has resumed after the us-iran ceasefire but vessel traffic remains far below normal, and a comoros-flagged container ship linked to an iranian business network ran aground in the chokepoint, with iran blaming the us. roughly a fifth of the world's oil and gas passes through this narrow waterway, so the gap between 'reopened' and 'trusted' is itself measurable — operators are voting with absent ships. 93%

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