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after 110 days of closure during us-iran conflict, major shipowners moved tankers through the strait of hormuz for the first time, with grimaldi, cosco, knutsen and nyk vessels crossing under a us-iran interim agreement. as of june 22, 441 large vessels remained clustered near sohar and fujairah awaiting full reopening. a 110-day complete closure of the world's most important oil chokepoint is without modern precedent; the slow queue drawdown indicates operators remain cautious despite ceasefire signals.

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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. 95%
the strait of hormuz remains largely closed to very large crude carriers despite ceasefire optimism, forcing charterers to reroute oil through oman and the red sea while iranian patrol activity continues. this is an unusual persistence of disruption in one of the world's most critical oil chokepoints even after diplomatic de-escalation signals. 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%
the strait of hormuz has operated at roughly 5% of normal traffic since late february, with satellite imagery now showing the us conducting at least 90 million barrels of ship-to-ship oil transfers offshore using methods that mirror iranian sanctions-evasion tactics. shipping industry executives warn that reopening will require safely moving 500 backed-up crude tankers and container ships through a waterway still suspected of containing mines, and that the terms of any us-iran pact remain unclear. this combination — a three-month chokepoint closure, covert workaround logistics at scale, and a chaotic reopening window — represents a structural disruption to global energy transport with no clean resolution path visible. 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. 94%
the hormuz strait reopened to commercial tanker traffic following a us-iran ceasefire, with three vlcc tankers carrying approximately 5 million barrels of crude beginning to exit. oman established temporary maritime corridors in coordination with the imo, and the un launched a large-scale evacuation for roughly 11,000 seafarers stranded across hundreds of ships in the gulf. the strait had been effectively closed for three months — a global energy chokepoint outage of that duration is structurally unusual; its simultaneous reopening with a political deal, oman mediation, and a large-scale un humanitarian operation signals how acute the bottleneck had become. 94%

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