No paywall and no gimmicks like "gimme your email first" at this MSN-hosted article.
One sees headlines like oil prices coming down now that several tankers have transited the strait. Almost as bad as "this war is very complete, pretty much"
Well, here's some factoids I culled from this article
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-some-ships-are-sneaking-through-the-strait-of-hormuz/ar-AA1YMfAU
How some ships are sneaking through the Strait of Hormuz, Wall Street Journal, 3/16/26
. . . Traffic through Hormuz is still well below prewar levels. On average, five ships went through the strait each day last week compared with 125 before the war, estimates Stephen Gordon, head of research at shipbroker Clarksons. Three oil tankers made the voyage over the weekend, versus 40 over a normal two-day period, he added. Around 1,100 ships including 250 petroleum tankers are stuck in the Gulf, according to Gordon.
. . . Working through that backlog would take weeks even after the waterway is safe to pass, said Saleem Khan, chief data and analytics officer at maritime-intelligence firm Pole Star Global.
. . . Although the strait is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, there are only two 1.86-mile stretches where water is deep enough for large oil tankers to pass, given how low these ships sit in the water. “This creates a two-lane highway for large vessels, one lane in and one out. The bottleneck here could last a few weeks at the very least,” he said.
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