The Strait of Hormuz: Why This 21-Mile Chokepoint Could Hit Your Grocery Bill Next
Olivia of Troye
There’s a stretch of water so narrow you could nearly shout across it. Twenty-one miles at its tightest point. Two shipping lanes, each barely two miles wide, threaded between Iran to the north and Oman to the south.
It has no rival. No bypass. No adequate replacement. And when it stops transport, the world feels it.
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Energy is the headline story. But it’s not the only one.
The Persian Gulf is also one of the world’s largest producers of nitrogen fertilizer. Fertilizers like ammonia and urea are made using natural gas as their primary ingredient. Because Gulf countries have access to some of the world’s cheapest natural gas, places like Qatar and Saudi Arabia built massive fertilizer industries around it. Much of that fertilizer is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
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