Important global oil flows through the Straight of Hormuz after commercial traffic including trade Israel’s attack on IranBut marine shipping experts say the ongoing risks would be that the security measures taken by the ship owners served as a real strait of the hermuz, if the lump sum was not closed.
According to Jacob Larsen, Chief Security and Security Officer at the Baltic and International Maritime Council, the situation is very tense, one of the largest international shipping associations, and he said that Bimco is getting reports that more ship owners are taking additional precautions and choosing to stay away from the Red Sea and Felion Gulf.
And those stress are only growing with Iran Launch of missiles towards Israel late Friday night And at the same time this week did not participate in the sixth round of nuclear dialogue with the United States at the end of this week.
The Strait of Hormuz, which is 35 to 60 miles (55 to 95 km) wide, and connects the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea Views about 20 million barrels per day Oil and oil pass through products, accounting for almost one-fifth global oil shipment.
there are The reason Iran can not shut down straightWhich is 34% of all ciborn-traded oil So far this year, according to a post of MarineTraFic. The Strait was effectively closed during the Iran-Iraq “Tanker War” in 1984, and a significant transit point for global oil and gas shipment, which happened Increase in price of crude On Friday.
But Hormuz’s straight is also important for global container trade. The region has ports (Jebel Ali and Khor Fakkan) transmission hubs. Most of these ports are lucky for cargo volumes Dubai, which has become a center for the movement of goods with feeder services in Persian Gulf, South Asia and East Africa.
One in Threatening circularThe British Maritime Security firm Embreen advised companies and ships to re -prepare high -risk transit after military attacks. “In the event of growing, traders are advised to reconsider the hormuz’s drainage and close to the Iranian water and seek favorable and protected regional water -flowing places,” Ambre wrote.
It recommended the owners and operators of the vessel to see whether they should check the affiliation of ships as part of the risk evaluation whether there was any Israel connection before their Arabian Sea, Oman’s Gulf of Oman and Persian/Arabia. Vastles with affiliation or past affiliation with Israel have targeted ships in the past.
BIMCO has advised ship owners to implement ship defense measures Mentioned in industry documentsSuspected vision for UK’s maritime trade operations, reconsideration of reconsideration current routing, and keep in mind the maritime security, it is one of the recommendations he has shared with customers.
Larsen said that any perception of the United States participation would bring more risk to the ships, although the US has so far limited its comments regarding strike, describing Israel’s works with state secretary Marco Rubio as “unilateral”, and “Iran should not target American interests or personnel on Thursday night.
America said it was Help Israel to shoot missiles Firing in Israel on Friday.
“If the United States is considered involved in sudden attacks, the risk of growth increases significantly,” he said. “The Red Sea and the Persian Bay/Hormuz are likely to affect the freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf. Such an increase may include missile attacks on ships or laying of marine mines in the strait.”
The US -led Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) said on Friday that Hormuz’s drainage remains open and commercial traffic flows uninterruptedly, and said that “there is no sign of increasing threat to the maritime environment.”
JMIC is urging companies to review contingent plans for routing, crew welfare and emergency response to a significant regional growth when transferring the Gulf of Arabia, Straight of Hormuz and North Arabian Sea.
Greece, which has history of Greek-owned tankers seized by Iran, is also warning its Greek ship owners and operators to send details of their transit through the straight of Hormuz.
In an email to CNBC, data and analytics firm KPler said that it is monitoring any vessel variations, but it is very early to detect any changes since the Israeli attacks.
Recent marine safety practices in the Red Sea indicated that the ship owners areware of the region, with the diversity of the goods ever since the vigor, despite the prolonged transit time and a 15% discount in the containership fee offered by the Suez Canal to woo the ocean carrier to woo the ocean carrier to return to the previous routes. The Suez Canal Traffic is 60% below the pre-hosted attack level.
The maritime industry is also escaping from the Middle East amidst the expectations of a truss and with Hauthis that they are not attacking the ships, but the Israeli attacks have expected a return to the normal Red Sea Shipping. “A large -scale return of container vessels in the Red Sea seems to be low, a situation that has a major impact on sea container shipping rates 18 months after Iran -backed Houthi militia in Yemen, began to attack ships in the region,” Zeneta’s chief shipping analyst Peter Sand said.
According to the sand, hikes are expected to be done by insurance underworters on ships, cargo and crew.
Sand said, “Unavoidable disruption and port congestion, as well as capacity for high oil prices, sea freight transportation container will cause a spike in shipping rates, emphasis will also be laid for ‘security surcharge’ on these trades in the coming days with the carrier,” Sand said.
