Iran Says Hormuz Strait Now Completely Open for Commercial Ships

But it’s not part of the ceasefire. The US should end it as soon as tankers actually start rolling through unmolested. 

The 'This week in shipping' guy on youtube said that the Saudi port on the coast there is one of the most critical ports in the world for refueling, I think this is still going to be a major problem if that's the case.

It makes me sick to my stomach

1 - Be president of the US 2 - Have no scruples or morals 3 - Profit

Something the Lebanese.government has continually failed tp do for 20 years. the disarmament of Hezbollah south of the Litani was.part of the 2006 ceasefire a Ceasefire.that.was agreed.on April 14, 2006.(liberally 20 years ago)

I’d be very surprised if Trump learned anything at all from this “little excursion”

Trump doesn't care aboit looking bad, either. But they made him look WEAK, the LOSER that he is, almost mocked him even. Obama did that once at a presidential dinner a loooong time ago. And look how he's still living rent free in dudes head

I don't think there's enough talk about how much Israel dared to overstep their station during Trump's administration. It's one thing to criticize to the media but Bibi would never dare to act out without Obama/Biden's endorsement and approval for when it matters.

Trump is a consummate b**** and is too stupid to understand how to apply political pressure or enforce boundaries. If something stops Israel from attacking it won’t be Trump laying down the law.

Trump believing he has ultimate authority in this matter is cute.

Why would you want to deprive the poor billionaires and politicians of even more money, you sick f***?

Megayachts don't just buy themselves, you know?

Where's Mr. Beast? "The first ship to cross the Strait of Hormuz will win a Tesla!"

If they had been stuck there for two months, they are probably trying to get through first. No clue how long this will last and they don't want to miss their chance.

Why would they send the first mate of their own ship, that seems reckless......

Yea I don’t trust the locals. Someone might have missed the memo.

So you haven’t read the article then. There has always been an unmined area at the coast of Iran. They will not be firing at ships using it.

>If they put mines, they also would need to clear them before using the strait again. My understanding is that modern navel mines can be armed and disarmed remotely, they don't have to be physically removed. Also there are obviously safe routes through the Straight, ships have been transiting it since the war started, just in fewer numbers that during peacetime.

WW1 wasn't the 19th century 

They say it with tears in their eyes.

I fully believe she did it as a power move. A nice reminder she can probably end him any time she wants.

There's also the fact that Amanda Ungaro tweeted about knowing what kind of person Melania really was or something like that. So people theorized that Melania went out with that conference to shut it down.

Crude futures directly and most heavily impact what you pay at the pump. https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2026/03/16/how-gasoline-prices-are-determined

That will happen any time there is major constraints on supply. Customers rarely buy bulk oil at same day pricing outside the future market. The best similarity is airline tickets. It's almost always cheaper to buy them a few months in advance. What is happening to the markets now is similar to airline tickets around a major holiday. It becomes ludicrous prices to buy same day airline tickets around Christmas. You wouldn't say that airline prices are broken due to that.

It's almost like they need to buy their restocking oil right away, and account for the risk in the market. Explain to me how you would handle 10+M barrels going offline suddenly with no end in sight? Oil is an extremely competitive market.

Depends how far in advance you order, I used to order full tankers of fuel for our Transport Company and the price difference between forecourt and refinery could be 25-30%. You could prepurchase X amount over whatever time frame you utilise it but you'd be betting on the fuel going up or down and losing or gaining based on it. Supermarkets generally hold prices well because they have contracts for vast amounts per year and buy very little at last minute. Smaller Gas Stations fly up and down depending on what's happening as they buy on the spot. Hilarious seeing the Supermarkets have 50p cheaper Fuel than a direct load from a Refinery early in the Ukrainian War, you can't fill up Trucks in those places though so get fucked basically.

That’s my understanding. If exports were halted then production had to stop/slow down and from what I read, when pumps are stopped they lose pressure and don’t pump as well once production resumes. Oil prices should drop if the strait is open but damage has already been done.

Qatar's main damage was to its LNG facilities not oil but other countries had their oil facilities attacked and one refinery was hit in Qatar.

“Self defense” 🤪