Showing posts with label Persian Gulf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Persian Gulf. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2026

Oh yeah, Iran wants to make a deal so badly it now threatens to shut down the Red Sea on top of the Persian Gulf

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Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to ‘completely’ block Strait of Hormuz: State media U.S. intercepts Iran missiles targeting American...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Meanwhile CNBC has an excellent story with great interactive graphs of vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait before and after the Houthi and Iran conflicts

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 And it's quite clear that the Iran war has had no real effect on the number of vessel transits through the Bab-el-Mandeb while destroyi...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Middle East tanker transits May 19-25, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.4/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 16.4/day

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 The table shown below is from JMIC Update 50. The previous update was JMIC Update 48, the table in which in comparison with the one in 47 l...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Only one side feels compelled to make peace in the Persian Gulf, and it ain't Iran

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Friday, May 22, 2026

Robert Kagan: Trump seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat

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Which is exactly what Trump did a year ago in the Red Sea. Beyond the near term endgame Kagan describes, and the isolation of Israel in part...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Middle East tanker transits per UKMTO JMIC Update 47 May 12-18, 2026: Strait of Hormuz 2.00/day, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait 15.42/day

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The tanker table for JMIC Update 48 is a mess. It has the wrong dates, and five days of data are identical to the data in Update 47. There w...
Monday, May 18, 2026

From JMIC Update 46 for Middle East tanker transits May 10-16, 2026: SoH 2.71 per day, BAM 13.57 per day

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Friday, May 15, 2026

There is almost nothing Athenian about China, nor Spartan about the United States

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But here we are. Does THE GRAUNIAD even know that Sparta won that war? Does Xi?  Meanwhile "Make America Great Again" handed our a...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

From JMIC Update 45: Bab-el-Mandeb Strait tanker transits average 13.42/day May 7-13, 2026

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 Strait of Hormuz 1.57/day. BAM tanker transits aren't even up to 2022's average of 30/day. The crisis of the oil trade is not being...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

IMF: Transits through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait remain half of what they were prior to the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 and have not come close to replacing lost Persian Gulf shipping

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 ... In the Red Sea, attacks on shipping that began in 2023 forced many vessels to reroute around Africa rather than use the Suez Canal. Mo...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Christopher Caldwell for The New York Times thinks the American Empire has met its match in the Persian Gulf when it already met it a year ago in the Red Sea

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... the United States lacks the military means to impose its will on Iran in a long conflict. In 1991 a million soldiers from more than 40 ...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

The average price of unleaded regular gasoline in 2022 was $4.09, but that's what I paid for it yesterday at Sam's Club, except now this morning it's $4.19!

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Gasoline stations around Grand Rapids were selling gasoline for $4.29/gallon yesterday. Gas Buddy says the average price in my county this ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Does anyone remember The Bedford Incident?

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 "If they fire one, we'll fire one". With the United States blockading all supply coming in to Iran and seizing some vessels, ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

JMIC Update 035 for the Middle East maritime region is confusing

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 The data boxes cover April 14-20 but are entitled April 12-18. And what is "2BAM Total" lol? Only The Sweet know for sure. Anyway...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

JMIC update 034 for the Middle East maritime region shows Strait of Hormuz combined cargo and tanker transits averaging 7.5 vessels per day April 12-18 vs. 138 normally

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 But tankers exiting the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz average just 2 per day April 12-18. After the 13th, just 10 tankers have ...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Buckle up

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Tanker transits in both the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea crawled to a virtual halt on April 10-11

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Just two out of the Strait of Hormuz April 10-11, just nine through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in either direction after Iran attacked the Sau...

Trump cuts off the flow of Iranian oil with blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, about 1.5 million barrels per day, China most hurt

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 Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks fail  Iran sends millions of oil barrels to China through Strait of H...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Iran must not be allowed to get away with the Tehran Toll Booth between Qeshm and Larak

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  Will War in Iran Kick Off a High-Seas Toll Binge? Timothy Noah, The New Republic

Hell yeah: USS Michael Murphy shows up in the Persian Gulf, Trump announces the US has begun clearing the Strait of Hormuz

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