# How a 95 percent drop in Hormuz traffic changed global shipping

https://mins.news/en/item/34181

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-27 09:29 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/27/how-a-95-percent-drop-in-hormuz-traffic-changed-global-shipping?traffic_source=rss

> Six months into the United States-Israel war on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed. Daily traffic has fallen from more than 100 vessels before the war to about five, disrupting worldwide flows of oil, gas and goods and creating one of the worst maritime shipping disruptions in decades.

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