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The figures

• Ships per day

  Cargo ships and tankers that sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on the latest day counted, compared with an average day in 2025. IMF PortWatch counts them from the tracking signals ships broadcast (AIS), about 3 days behind. Ships that switch their tracker off are missed.

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• Tankers per day

  The same count, but only tankers: the ships that carry oil, fuel and gas.

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• Cargo capacity (DWT)

  How much those ships could carry in total, in deadweight tonnes (DWT: the weight of cargo, fuel and supplies a ship can hold). One supertanker counts for far more than a small ship, so this shows how much trade could move, not just how many ships. It is capacity, not what was actually on board.

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• Cape of Good Hope

  Ships passing the Cape of Good Hope, at the southern tip of Africa. More ships here can mean more ships taking the long way round. Counted the same way as the Hormuz figures.

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• Bab el-Mandeb

  Ships passing the Bab el-Mandeb strait, the narrow gate between Yemen on one side and Djibouti and Eritrea on the other, at the southern end of the Red Sea. It leads to the Suez Canal. Counted the same way as the Hormuz figures.

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• Suez Canal

  Ships passing through the Suez Canal, the shortcut between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Counted the same way as the Hormuz figures.

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• War-risk cover

  The extra insurance a ship pays to enter a war zone, as a share of the ship's value, for each passage. The usual figure is the level before the war. Quotes differ by ship and by day, so it is often given as a range.

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• Brent crude

  The world's benchmark oil price, in US dollars per barrel: the daily spot price of Brent crude. It comes from the US Energy Information Administration, published through the Federal Reserve's FRED service (series DCOILBRENTEU), and trails the market by a few days.

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• US petrol

  The average price of a US gallon (3.785 litres) of fuel at American filling stations, taxes included. The US Energy Information Administration checks about 900 stations for regular unleaded petrol and about 350 for diesel, every Monday. Weekly, so it moves more slowly than the oil price.

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• US diesel

  The average price of a US gallon (3.785 litres) of fuel at American filling stations, taxes included. The US Energy Information Administration checks about 900 stations for regular unleaded petrol and about 350 for diesel, every Monday. Weekly, so it moves more slowly than the oil price.

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• UK petrol

  The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol or diesel at UK pumps, duty and VAT included, for the week starting that Monday. From the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Weekly, so it moves more slowly than the oil price.

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• UK diesel

  The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol or diesel at UK pumps, duty and VAT included, for the week starting that Monday. From the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Weekly, so it moves more slowly than the oil price.

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• EU petrol

  The average price of a litre of unleaded 95 petrol or diesel at pumps across the 27 EU countries, taxes included, for that Monday. Each country reports its most common price and the European Commission averages them, weighting each country by how much fuel it uses. Published per 1,000 litres; shown here per litre.

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• EU diesel

  The average price of a litre of unleaded 95 petrol or diesel at pumps across the 27 EU countries, taxes included, for that Monday. Each country reports its most common price and the European Commission averages them, weighting each country by how much fuel it uses. Published per 1,000 litres; shown here per litre.

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• VLCC rate, TD3C

  The price of hiring a supertanker (a VLCC, about 2 million barrels of oil) to carry crude from the Gulf to China, on the shipping industry's Worldscale (WS) scale. WS 100 is the standard base price for the route. The higher the number, the more it costs to ship oil.

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• Talks

  The latest state of the diplomatic talks that could reopen the strait.

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Usual is the 2025 daily average for traffic, and the level before the crisis for cover and rates.