RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Nobody is taking slaves. Coastal states just want to stop enemy ships, institute their own limited sanctions regimes, and maybe charge some tolls. When a coastal state like Iran needs veto power over shipping as an important part of its national security strategy, it will successfully exert this control. ...

The Coast Guard is on the lookout for falling cargo containers in the Port of Long Beach. Look at this. They're all like leaned up against each other.Does that look like a stack of dominoes about to give way. The ship lost dozens of containers at sea earlier this month near Alaska. So they set up a big safety zone so crews can try to clean this. ...

Iran is now collecting tolls.Malaysia and Indonesia are taking notice.Drop Site (@DropSiteNews):💢 Iran sets up “approved” shipping corridor through HormuzIran is allowing select vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz along routes inside its territorial waters after prior approval — with at least one tanker reportedly paying around $2M for transit, according to https://t.co/IqlLVRwCE5 ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The way it might work is that Malaysia and/or Indonesia would mine all but specific channels, and those channels would hug their coasts, allowing their missiles and drone planes and drone boats to be targeted on ships they have not authorized in those channels, and giving them opportunity to inspect the ships for compliance with the rules. China would play ball and follow their rules, as they are now doing at Hormuz. Which countries' shipping companies were privileged would depend ...

Is the Strait of Hormuz safe for shipping right now, Mr. . Secretary. >> No. No, it is not.That's that's one of the objectives at the end of this conflict is to reopen the Straits of Hormuz. But no, it is. Since the conflict began, Iran has impeded flow through the Straits of Hormuz.Um, and that is still the case today. >> Is Iran laying mines in the straight of Hormuz. >> Look, you see flow through the Straits of Hormuz right now.There were five tanker ships that went through the straits last night carryin ...

Shipping turmoil intensifies as military strikes in the Iran war continue and more tankers are hit in the Gulf.Get the latest news and analysis in our live blog: https://t.co/248vjG5V29 ...

3 cargo ships hit and damaged in or near the Strait of Hormuz. More details and other Hormuz updates here:https://t.co/YKRxEyHFe6 ...

Shipping update: from bad to worsehttps://t.co/xjV08S5B7TNick Szabo (@NickSzabo4):Since the start of the Zionist war:* Shipments of oil from the Persian Gulf to the open oceans -- through the Straight of Hormuz -- shut down to a trickle.* Oil shipment costs have doubled worldwide -- longer routes and general uncertainty greatly increase demand for ships* ...

Traffic through the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping strait has reached a near standstill amid the war between the US, Israel, and Iran https://t.co/C7O8WpX5g3 ...

Hey, it's Brian Sullivan of CNBC and Power Lunch. Listen, there's some huge news, potential news that came out of the White House. We've been saying now for a while that if you want to know where the stock market is going and energy and maybe your gasoline prices are going, you got to watch what's called the straight of Hormuz, the 20 mile wide area that you ship through to get to the Persian Gulf.20 to 30% of oil and natural gas and chemicals all go through that. And there's some news that maybe the United ...