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The Invisible Economic Blockade In the current war environment involving Iran and escalating regional risk, maritime trade faces a phenomenon that is not officially declared but is economically real. This phenomenon is the “chilling effect” created by extreme war-risk insurance premiums. Even when shipping lanes remain technically open and no physical blockade is enforced, the…
When a major energy exporter invokes force majeure during a regional war, the accounting questions become much more difficult than the legal headlines suggest. In the current environment of war involving Iran and severe disruption risk across Gulf energy routes, the practical issue is not merely whether cargoes move or do not move. The deeper…
The maritime insurance market is reacting to the current US-Israel conflict with Iran in a way that often looks shocking from the outside. The most dramatic move has not been the immediate destruction of a huge number of ships, but the sudden explosion in war-risk insurance premiums for vessels entering or operating near the Strait…