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Moller–Maersk has suspended new Strait of Hormuz transits and is rerouting Gulf-bound cargo via Jebel Ali transhipment with Cape diversions for Asia–Europe.","hormuzPosture":"stopped","sourceUrl":"https://www.maersk.com/news","sourceName":"Maersk · News","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"cma-cgm","carrier":"CMA CGM","rank":3,"status":"rerouting","surchargeUsdPerTeu":950,"vesselsTrapped":1,"trappedTeu":null,"since":"2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"CMA CGM has activated Cape of Good Hope routing for all Asia–Europe services; spot rates up roughly 60% on affected lanes.","hormuzPosture":"unstated","sourceUrl":"https://www.cma-cgm.com/news","sourceName":"CMA CGM · News","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"cosco","carrier":"COSCO","rank":4,"status":"limited","surchargeUsdPerTeu":600,"vesselsTrapped":5,"trappedTeu":null,"since":"2026-03-15T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"COSCO Shipping continues selective Gulf transits under convoy escort but has suspended bookings to Bandar Abbas; Cape rerouting in effect for Europe-bound.","hormuzPosture":"limited","sourceUrl":"https://lines.coscoshipping.com/home/Services/notice","sourceName":"COSCO Shipping Lines · Notices","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"hapag-lloyd","carrier":"Hapag-Lloyd","rank":5,"status":"rerouting","surchargeUsdPerTeu":1100,"vesselsTrapped":6,"trappedTeu":25000,"since":"2026-03-03T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Hapag-Lloyd has suspended Hormuz transits and is rerouting via the Cape; surcharges layered on top of existing Red Sea contingency adders.","hormuzPosture":"stopped","sourceUrl":"https://www.hapag-lloyd.com/en/online-business/customer-information.html","sourceName":"Hapag-Lloyd · Customer information","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"one","carrier":"ONE","rank":6,"status":"rerouting","surchargeUsdPerTeu":900,"vesselsTrapped":null,"trappedTeu":null,"since":"2026-03-06T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Ocean Network Express is routing Asia–Europe via the Cape; Gulf service suspended pending convoy availability.","hormuzPosture":"stopped","sourceUrl":"https://www.one-line.com/","sourceName":"ONE","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"evergreen","carrier":"Evergreen","rank":7,"status":"rerouting","surchargeUsdPerTeu":850,"vesselsTrapped":null,"trappedTeu":null,"since":"2026-03-08T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Evergreen Marine is diverting Asia–Europe loops via the Cape and has paused new Gulf bookings.","hormuzPosture":"stopped","sourceUrl":"https://www.evergreen-marine.com/","sourceName":"Evergreen Marine","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"hmm","carrier":"HMM","rank":8,"status":"rerouting","surchargeUsdPerTeu":800,"vesselsTrapped":null,"trappedTeu":null,"since":"2026-03-09T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"HMM has implemented Cape rerouting for Asia–Europe and is operating limited Gulf service through alliance partners.","hormuzPosture":"limited","sourceUrl":"https://www.hmm21.com/cms/company/engn/notice/notice.jsp","sourceName":"HMM · Notices","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"yang-ming","carrier":"Yang Ming","rank":9,"status":"rerouting","surchargeUsdPerTeu":750,"vesselsTrapped":null,"trappedTeu":null,"since":"2026-03-12T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Yang Ming Marine Transport has shifted Asia–Europe services to the Cape route in coordination with THE Alliance partners.","hormuzPosture":"unstated","sourceUrl":"https://www.yangming.com/News/customer_notice.aspx","sourceName":"Yang Ming · Customer notices","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z"}],"pipelineBypass":[{"id":"petroline","name":"Petroline (East-West Pipeline)","originCountry":"Saudi Arabia","terminus":"Yanbu (Red Sea)","capacityBpd":5000000,"currentUtilizationPct":95,"status":"operational","notes":"Saudi Aramco's East-West Pipeline carries Arabian Light from Abqaiq to Yanbu on the Red Sea, the single largest non-Hormuz route for Gulf crude.","sourceUrl":"https://www.eia.gov/international/content/analysis/special_topics/World_Oil_Transit_Chokepoints/","sourceName":"EIA · World Oil Transit Chokepoints","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"adcop","name":"ADCOP (Habshan-Fujairah)","originCountry":"United Arab Emirates","terminus":"Fujairah (Gulf of Oman)","capacityBpd":1500000,"currentUtilizationPct":100,"status":"operational","notes":"ADNOC's Habshan-Fujairah pipeline lifts UAE crude past the Strait of Hormuz to Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, where it loads on tankers transiting the open Indian Ocean.","sourceUrl":"https://www.eia.gov/international/content/analysis/special_topics/World_Oil_Transit_Chokepoints/","sourceName":"EIA · World Oil Transit Chokepoints","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z"},{"id":"goreh-jask","name":"Goreh-Jask Pipeline","originCountry":"Iran","terminus":"Jask (Gulf of Oman)","capacityBpd":350000,"currentUtilizationPct":40,"status":"partial","notes":"Iran's pipeline from the southwest oilfields to Jask on the Gulf of Oman bypasses the Strait, but throughput remains a fraction of nameplate capacity.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceName":"EIA · Iran Country Analysis","updatedAt":"2026-08-09T12:00:11.023Z","authoredAt":"2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z"}],"spr":{"currentMbbl":298.69,"change4wMbbl":-17.81,"asOfDate":"2026-08-07","updatedAt":"2026-08-14T15:00:24.144Z"},"gas":{"nationalAvgUsd":4.1,"nationalAvgCents":410,"stateCount":51,"newestUpdatedAt":"2026-08-15T06:44:07.522Z"},"dailyBrief":{"date":"2026-08-15","bullets":["BREAKING: Two ADNOC tankers were struck by drones in the Strait of Hormuz, per gCaptain; the report is not independently confirmed.","Crisis Pressure sits in the extreme band, rising, while the Escalation Forecast is in the elevated band, rising; the two indices diverge, measuring different risk dimensions.","PortWatch recorded 1 transit on 2026-08-09, against a pre-crisis baseline of 73 per day; separately, port arrivals across Hormuz-area ports reached 577 in the most recent 24 hours."],"summary":"The Strait of Hormuz is the operational focal point of a sharply deteriorating situation. Per gCaptain, two ADNOC-affiliated tankers were struck by drones while transiting outbound, with the UAE attributing the attack to Iran; the report carries a single-source caveat and has not been independently confirmed. A separate gCaptain report states Iranian attacks are pushing commercial traffic away from the US-coordinated Omani-waters route and toward the northern, Tehran-controlled corridor, compounding routing risk for operators. The closure picture remains contested: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, as cited by IRNA, asserted that the strait can only be opened or closed by Tehran's command, while Mehr News, citing the same Iranian position, states no vessel may cross without Iran's permission. The site's carrier-posture verdict is a cautious closed, but the physical transit picture is disputed and operators should not treat either position as settled. At 05:53 UTC, 422 vessels were holding position away from berth (excluding ships within 25 km of a working port), and Brent stood at $88.52, up 1.81 percent over the prior 24 hours; futures markets are closed and that figure is carried forward from the last close, not a live signal. Crisis Pressure is in the extreme band and rising, with physical transit deviation as the top contributor; the Escalation Forecast is in the elevated band and also rising, driven by Polymarket escalation contracts. The two indices diverge and measure distinct risk dimensions.","brent":88.52,"brentDeltaPct":1.81,"transitsToday":1,"transitsAsOfDate":"2026-08-09","transitsAgeDays":6,"source":"claude","generatedAt":"2026-08-15T05:53:22.406Z"},"predictionMarkets":[{"id":"polymarket_665374","venue":"polymarket","title":"Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027?","question":"Will the U.S. invade Iran before 2027?","probability":0.165,"volumeUsd":58591962.943427995,"liquidityUsd":915399.835,"closeAt":"2026-12-31T00:00:00Z","sourceUrl":"https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-us-invade-iran-before-2027","updatedAt":"2026-08-15T06:39:17.697Z"},{"id":"polymarket_663583","venue":"polymarket","title":"Will the Iranian regime fall before 2027?","question":"Will the Iranian regime fall before 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For hormuz that window is a genuine pre-crisis baseline. For bab-el-mandeb, suez and cape it is not: those routes were already carrying diverted Red Sea traffic within that window, so preCrisisBaselineMedian for those rows reads as wartime volume, not a peacetime figure.","hormuzSnapshot":{"inPortTotal":0,"expectedTotal":225,"arrivals24hTotal":577,"departures24hTotal":null,"transitsLast24h":577,"portsContributing":5,"asOf":"2026-08-15T06:22:00.983Z","note":"transitsLast24h counts port arrivals only (departures are not published upstream), across ports on both sides of the strait. Not a Hormuz crossing count. Use transits.count for that."},"capeSnapshot":{"inPortTotal":null,"expectedTotal":179,"arrivals24hTotal":76,"departures24hTotal":null,"transitsLast24h":76,"portsContributing":4,"asOf":"2026-08-15T04:47:50.624Z","note":"transitsLast24h counts port arrivals only (departures are not published upstream), across ports on both sides of the strait. Not a Hormuz crossing count. 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