Danger zone: how shipping must run Tehran’s gauntlet

Tanker Positions:

Anchored

Moving

Bandar Abbas

IRAN

Strait of

Hormuz

Persian

Gulf

Gulf

of Oman

Dubai

UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES

Liwa

Sohar

Abu

Dhabi

OMAN

Ibri

Nizwa

50 mi

Before the conflict:

138 vessels

a day

Ships

Now:

Around 8 a

day maximum

20 million barrels of oil passed

through a day in 2025, around

£447billion of energy trade a year

Money

made

20 million barrels of oil pass

through a day, roughly a fifth/

20% of the world’s supply

Oil

1.93milllion barrels a day (about 20%

of liquefied natural gas (LNG)

usually travels through a day)

Gas

Now 200 ships

anchored or stranded

outside the Strait and

in nearby waters

Iran has 1500 remote-controlled

suicide drone boats, each armed

with 500kg of explosives along

key Persian Gulf coastal areas

Moving

Tanker Positions:

Anchored

Bandar Abbas

IRAN

Strait of

Hormuz

Persian

Gulf

Gulf

of Oman

Dubai

UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES

Sohar

Abu

Dhabi

OMAN

Ibri

Nizwa

50 mi

Before the conflict:

138 vessels a day

Ships

Now:

Around 8 a day maximum

Money

made

20 million barrels of oil passed through a day in

2025, around £447billion of energy trade a year

20 million barrels of oil pass through a day,

roughly a fifth/20% of the world’s supply

Oil

1.93milllion barrels a day (about 20% of liquefied

natural gas (LNG) usually travels through a day)

Gas

Now 200 ships

anchored orstranded

outside the Strait

and in nearby waters

Iran has 1500 remote-controlled

suicide drone boats, each armed

with 500kg of explosives along

key Persian Gulf coastal areas

Tanker Positions:

Anchored

Moving

Bandar Abbas

50 mi

IRAN

Strait of

Hormuz

Persian

Gulf

Dubai

Gulf

of Oman

UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES

Abu

Dhabi

Sohar

Ibri

OMAN

Nizwa

Ships

Before the conflict:

138 vessels a day

Now:

Around 8 a day maximum

Money

made

20 million barrels of oil passed through a day in

2025, around £447billion of energy trade a year

20 million barrels of oil pass through a day,

roughly a fifth/20% of the world’s supply

Oil

1.93milllion barrels a day (about 20% of liquefied

natural gas (LNG) usually travels through a day)

Gas

Now 200 ships anchored or

stranded outside the Strait

and in nearby waters

Iran has 1500 remote-controlled suicide drone boats,

each armed with 500kg of explosives along

key Persian Gulf coastal areas