Middle East Producers Build Oil Shuttle System to Bypass Conflict Choke
🛢️ HORMUZ — Producers aren't waiting for peace; they're rerouting around it. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Shuttle transshipment — smaller vessels moving cargo past the strait's kill zone — erodes Tehran's chokepoint leverage without reopening Hormuz. For Europe and Asia: supply at a premium, not cutoff. But if this hardens into permanent infrastructure, markets price the blockade as structural — and the de-escalation incentive Tehran's diplomats are banking on evaporates.
