Shipping platform: Transit through the Strait of Hormuz has not been fully suspended yet, but the volume has dropped sharply.

BlockBeats message. July 14. Data from the shipping platform Kpler shows that from July 10 to 12, the number of vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz decreased by about 52% year-on-year. Each vessel has again adopted more cautious navigation routes. At the same time, the number of vessels going through Iran and through “back routes” has increased somewhat, while vessel activity along the routes designated by the IMO and in Oman waters has nearly completely stopped.

Although no attacks confirmed by the IMO have occurred since June 27, tensions between the US and Iran and warnings from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps still keep the commercial shipping industry on high alert.

Yesterday, Trump said that from once and for all, the blockade of Iran would be restored, and a 20% fee would be charged for cargo transport. Iran then responded that it cannot “open” the Strait of Hormuz. “A simple explanation for those who care about this: a blockade is a blockade. It can’t ‘open’ the Strait of Hormuz; it will only restrict it. To get out of this predicament it created itself, the only way out is to keep open and flexible in negotiations. Follow reason.”