Showing posts with label Red Sea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Sea. Show all posts
Friday, June 5, 2026

The increase in Saudi oil exports through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in April 2026 came to about 3.3 million barrels per day according to Kpler

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   Iran’s threats against this Red Sea choke point are a big vulnerability for the oil market  ... Oil and product exports through the Bab e...
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...
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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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...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Current Bab-al-Mandeb tanker traffic at the end of April 2026 appears consistent with 1Q2026 Suez Canal tanker traffic, nothing more

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  Suez Canal Tanker Traffic 1Q26 v 1Q22   SOUTH Tankers per day +1.6 to 7.5 Tonnage per ship +16.7%  NORTH Tankers per day +0.3 to 7.9 Tonna...
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 ...
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 12, 2026

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...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

America is no longer a world superpower because it doesn't have a Navy capable of maintaining freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, let alone in the West Philippine Sea or the Taiwan Strait

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But we can still put people in a tin can and send them around the moon like we did already in 1968. We also don't have a military capabl...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Ronald Reagan's goal of a 600-ship U.S. Navy made it to 594 in 1987, but in 2026 we can barely deploy 300 because of Bill Clinton, but Trumpty Dumpty never mentions that

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   After the end of the U.S.S.R. in 1991, Bill Clinton gutted the Navy. We went from 541 ships in 1992 to 336 by 1999. And now we can't ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

In other words, this would mean Trump is going to cut and run from the Persian Gulf just like he cut and ran from the Red Sea on May 6, 2025

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 Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz: Administration officials assess that forcing the waterway back open wou...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

The latest UKMTO JMIC Advisory on 3/29 indicates 12 tankers transited the Strait of Hormuz in the last 7 days vs. 2 previously, 78 through the Bab al-Mandab Strait vs. 130 previously

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 Persian Gulf Activity: 1.7/day last week vs. 0.3/day prior week Red Sea Activity: 11.1/day last week vs. 18.6/day prior week  JMIC Advisory...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf has been cut by 98% in one month because of the Iran War, effectively reducing the world's primary energy inputs through the Strait of Hormuz by 20%

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The UAE is bypassing the Strait of Hormuz with 1.9 million barrels per day now coming out of Fujairah via its overland pipeline, and Saudi A...

The Houthis have joined Iran by restarting hostilities against Israel

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Trump couldn't finish the Houthis off last year, and now they come back to bite. Oil tankers filling at Saudi Arabia's Yanbu port in...
Friday, March 20, 2026

The Trump administration learned nothing from its fight to a draw with the Houthis last year

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... Iran is still believed to have a vast stockpile of mines, cruise missiles on trucks and hundreds of undamaged boats in hidden faciliti...