Six months after the outbreak of war in the Middle East, the strategic Strait of Hormuz remains largely paralysed. Commercial shipping has yet to recover, thousands of seafarers are still stranded in the Gulf, and the flow of vital commodities through the waterway is a fraction of what it once was.Before Iran shut the strait in February—in retaliation for joint US‑Israeli airstrikes—roughly one‑fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas passed through this narrow chokepoint. Today, traff...
