Hormuz Traffic Rises to Highest in Weeks

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Source: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has climbed to its highest levels since the early days of the war, as more countries secure apparent safe-passage agreements with Iran.

The waterway saw 21 ships transit over the weekend as more energy-starved governments negotiate to extract vessels, cargoes and crews from the Persian Gulf, strengthening Tehran’s grip on the waterway. That’s the highest two-day total since the first days of March, when traffic was winding down.

Iranian vessels continue to dominate traffic, but on Sunday a tanker carrying Iraqi crude made its way through the strait, after Iran said it would grant an exemption to “brotherly Iraq”. India — which has negotiated the exit of some ships and even taken Iranian liquefied petroleum gas for the first time in years — has now seen eight of its LPG tankers come through.

Though the number of vessels is still a fraction of what it was before the war, when about 135 vessels were passing regularly each day, more countries are securing transits. Last week, two China-linked container ships made the crossing on a second attempt. Two Japan-linked vessels have also passed.






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Everyone but us.

[dem4decades]

1. They'll be paying a new toll keeper soon, Trump's planning on his own tool booth.

To the winner goes the spoils, or the tolls in this case.

[Bluetus]

3. There is NOBODY that wants "the great Satan" lording over the Strait

And the US is in no position to do anything of the sort unless we want to commit 200,000 troops to occupy the entire coastline of Iran.

I would not be surprised to see this end with a new doctrine that has Iran at least nominally in charge of managing passage through Hormuz, charging modest tolls to ships it feels have a legitimate purpose in the Gulf. Perhaps there will be a multi-lateral presence, but nobody wants the US to control any of this.

We have no allies now, other than Netanyahu -- only back-stabbers who are momentarily not using their daggers.

Remember that Russia and China have much more business in the Gulf than we do. They aren't about to let the Trump rule this and line his own pockets with toll money -- unless he gives Russia and China things that hurt America even more.

[IbogaProject]

8. Rubio already admitted that would be the result

He said "I expect this will result in Iran Tolling for safe passage" a couple of weeks ago.

[Cheezoholic]

9. Well, ya know, many countries have the gift of geography. The sad part is there were already agreements for safe passage

in place for all. I DO NOT support oppressive regimes be them in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Russia, Hungary China et. al in any way. But when we became Nutenyayhoos wingman in this insane attack (Israel's hardliner's are getting everything they want, land grabs, ethnic cleansing, with 0 repercussion's) then Iran can play the big fuck you, this is our corner pay up game and I don't blame them at all. In FatFucks fantasy world number one nobody's gonna make money off the Strait if he can't so you know thats boiling those 3 brain cells he has if they get to pay to play and he can't. Afterall, he's the King and in his mind and all shall pay him to play.

Iran will be his bloody Horses head under his bed covers in the end.

[Bluetus]

11. Partnership with Oman to staff the tollgate

A commentator on Bloomberg this morning suggested that it is likely in the end that Iran and Oman will forge an agreement to split the tolls.

Trump, the brilliant businessman with the gift of deal-making has set Iran up in a new line of business.

How can the media look at this stuff and not report the obvious facts? I understand that they may be afraid to set this toddler off with direct questions, but they ought to be following their coverage with serious fact checking.

What the F are we even doing here with the billion dollars a day we are spending (probably a lot more than that now that we are ramping up ground troops)?

[Bluetus]

2. A complete stregic blunder by Trump. Monumental fail

Every day that passes, Iran is wondering why they didn't set up a toll booth on the Strait long ago. They could get very used to this.

Here is my prediction. A year from now, Trump and his army will be long gone, but Iran will still be "administering the safety" of the Strait, still requiring permission and tolls to pass.

[EarthFirst]

4. Are these full transit vessels?

…or ships that have been at anchor in the Persian Gulf since the war began?

[dave99]

5. The idiot in the Whitehouse screwed up again, just like his father used to call him: shithead

[Dr. T]

6. Looks to me like other countries took Dimwit Donnie's taunting as a challenge.

When he said they can open the straights themselves, they gave him the one-finger salute and did just that.

[Bluetus]

7. I heard a commentator today saying the most outrageous things in the most unethical of ways

It was on Sirrius radio, so I am not positive what channel. I think it was MSNOW.

The MFer tried to act like he was a straight shooter, but 4 times within 3 minutes he made comments like "After all this, we are right back to where we were 90 days ago", specifically referencing Hormuz.

That was the most blatant of lies. He was trying to imply that Trump had to bomb Iran because Iran was restricting the traffic through Hormuz. That is a damned lie. 90 days ago was early January. There were absolutely no reports of shipping being impeded. That did not happen until AFTER Trump started bombing on Feb 28. That was not 90 days ago. That was barely a month ago. And the traffic stopped itself because insurers were not willing to underwrite sailing through an active war zone. Iran didn't do that. Trump created that war zone.

This is the kind of thing that makes me really hate MSNOW just as much as the rest of the legacy networks. 4 times this guy said it and nobody challenged it once.

Just once. I'd like to hear somebody say "Hang on. Are you saying ....?" When was the last time you heard those words on any of the legacy networks?

[Kahuna]

10. Iran gave Trump an idea for a new grift...

I predicted last week that trump would want to take over the Strait so that HE could collect those tariffs. You just know he's thinking about it.

[PCB66]

12. Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran

has never been about Iran having nuclear weapons.

It is about cutting off oil to China. China has been gaining influence in the regions of the world with strategic metals.

Venezuela and Iran supplies a large amount of oil to China.

I suspect that leverage over China is what it is all about.