Six months after the Middle East war began, the Strait of Hormuz is still struggling to return to normal, with commercial shipping operating at a fraction of pre-war levels and thousands of seafarers stranded in the Gulf.
The strategic waterway, a critical artery for global energy supplies, handled an average of just 15 commodity carrier transits a day between July 8 and August 22, according to maritime data from Kpler. That compares with 95 a day in February, before Iran blocked the strait following joint US-Israeli strikes.
