OilPrice.com (August 2)
“When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia quickly redirected its oil flows to the Red Sea. Now, that route has become dangerous because of the Houthi blockade, so Saudi is rerouting to Egypt” where two LNG tankers “just got struck by drones. OPEC’s number-one is running out of options to reroute its oil exports.”
Tags: Dangerous, Drones, Egypt, Houthi blockade, Iran, LNG tankers, Oil exports, OPEC, Options, Red Sea, Redirected, Reroute, Route, Saudi Arabia, Shut down, Strait of Hormuz
Bloomberg (March 2)
“For a global economy that’s been muddling through Trump’s tariff rollout and growing uncertainty over the impact of Artificial Intelligence on labor markets, the latest spike in Middle East tensions adds yet more uncertainty. Travel chaos extended through the region and beyond, while the world’s largest container carriers had to reroute ships to avoid the Persian Gulf.”
Tags: Artificial intelligence, Container carriers, Labor markets, Middle East, Muddling, Persian Gulf, Reroute, Spike, Tariff, Tensions, Travel chaos, Trump, Uncertainty
