As Strait of Hormuz stays shut, companies seek new routes for trade
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The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, forcing shipping companies to reroute cargo through longer, more expensive alternative passages. Prolonged disruption structurally benefits diversified tanker and dry-bulk operators with Cape of Good Hope exposure while pressuring refiners dependent on Gulf crude.
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Wrong ifA sudden diplomatic resolution or U.S.-brokered ceasefire reopening the Strait would collapse tanker rates overnight and relieve refiner feedstock pressure simultaneously, destroying both legs of the pair.
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