Status Update on the Persian Gulf || June 30, 2026
All right, time for a status update on Persian Gulf shipping. Tanker traffic is slowly resuming, and Gulf producers are gradually restarting exports...but let's not go counting chickens quite yet.
Global energy flows remain constrained, and exports won't fully recover for some time. Most of the traffic is the previously stranded cargo flowing out, rather than new tankers entering. And Iran has emerged from this new arrangement with greater influence over the Strait.
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Comments (23)
Can I just take a minute to appreciate how handsome you look. There's just something about a silver fox , so beautiful!
Sounds like a well orchestrated pirate scheme.
Maybe the incoming oil tankers need time to pick-up activity, unless they were all queuing waiting for a deal that allowed them to access the golf.
In contrast to my previous question you go to nz often, wondering if you have any perspective on NZ economics and the CGT increase that was eventually wound back then comparison to Australia
Can you give any assessment for incoming housing crisis for Australia due to its new taxation policies setting the government on fire. I know your American focused just would be interested to hear your thoughts based on trillion dollar debts and massive tax impacts
Tyranny of distance strikes again. Geography overrules all ideology. The maps will still be the same, long after humanity's time has passed.
It’s still surprises me that the Navy and Air Force went along with this plan… Makes you wonder how long it was in the works and how many admirals and generals just kept saying this is in feasible until they finally fired enough people and got somebody who didn’t know what was happening in charge of the military operation.
Whether they like it or not, their job is to take orders from the government. A mass resignation would be the only way.
If this is true, why are there reports of an oil glut so severe that Asian refiners have begun to push their crude to California, why not just refill their own reserves? https://www.theedgesingapore.com/amp/news/oil-gas/growing-oil-glut-spurs-asian-refiners-offer-cargoes-us--bloomberg?__cf_chl_f_tk=MXl43TU0Dk94rMtITzV73Dpx.pDqflmv1lqIX7Q0brI-1782827631-1.0.1.1-hAVdW27wbRQRiqlAEzXftHe2W3EAKbXr0.NTye2PkJM
I was wondering the same thing
So will oil go back up in price ?
Anyone getting tired of winning yet?
Groundhog Day 🥱
i don’t know where you’re getting your info but this is wrong. i dunno why you even posted when this info was maybe true 10 days ago
What part?
Remember what a fuss the Republicans and the media made of Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan? Mind you that agreement and timeline was decided by the Trump administration. Republicans were talking about impeachment, and the media were saying Biden committed the biggest strategic failure in decades. Where are those people now? John Sopko, Clarissa Ward, Rick Scott, Leader Thune, Mike Lee? Why so quiet now?
In my opinion Orange Man is going to go down as the absolute worst president in American history. He'll be up there with Caligula of Rome. Caligula put his horse in charge of the Senate, Orange Man has Hegseth and oh, so many other jackasses in charge of things.
Trump: But you do agree that I am the most historic president in Amercan history!
Remember, this is what 80m Americans voted for. This is what MAGA supports.
As has been said before: the difference between pack animals and humans is that pack animals don't let the dumbest lead the flock.
Thank you, Peter. I have heard nothing about the ships that take cargoes (food, consumer goods, machinery, capital equipment) into the Gulf - to Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain and also to the US bases inside the Gulf. Are those countries feeling the strain?
This is like the disaster of the 7,000 veils, every day it gets a little stranger...
Time to go find a nice place where you can just sit down and thinking about all the mistakes you’ve made, maybe by a body of water, somewhere idk profound. If only we had a place like that in the US. Almost like a.. a.. a Revision Puddle?