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Wed · 16 Sep 2026

Dubai Plans Alternative Port to Bypass Strait of Hormuz

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Dubai Plans Alternative Port to Bypass Strait of Hormuz

🏗️ DUBAI — The UAE is building around Hormuz while CENTCOM is still fighting over it. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A UAE bypass port signals Abu Dhabi has quietly concluded Hormuz is structurally unreliable — not temporarily disrupted. That's a long-term hedge that undercuts both Washington's "we'll reopen it" narrative and Tehran's leverage. Gulf sovereign infrastructure investment moving now means the economic war over Hormuz transit rights may outlast the shooting war.

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