Somali Piracy Surges Amid Hormuz Blockade
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced hundreds of commercial ships onto longer routes around Africa, and Somali pirates are moving quickly to exploit the sudden increase in traffic off the continent’s eastern coast. Oil tankers MT Honour 25, MT Eureka and MT Asana were hijacked in
Source: OilPrice.com
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The Hormuz closure has left 2,000 ships stranded in the Gulf for 122 days and cut global oil supply by 4.3 million barrels per day — which makes the Gulf of Aden, already lawless, the last viable route between Europe and Asia. Somali pirates don't need strategy when the world's shipping has nowhere else to go.