Xamanismo Coletivo"The #blockade is working on the compliant fleet. Traffic has dropped to 7 to 11 vessels per day from a pre-crisis norm of 140. That is a 93 percent reduction. Ships with insurance, flag-state registration, and Western port access are turning around. The deterrence is real.
But the shadow fleet does not carry insurance, does not need Western port access, does not recognize flag-state accountability. It is already sanctioned, already uninsured, already outside the system the blockade enforces. For these vessels the marginal cost of #defiance is zero because every penalty has already been applied."
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) on X
JUST IN: She turned around. Then she came back. At 10:00 a.m. Eastern on April 13, CENTCOM’s blockade of Iranian ports went live. Within twenty minutes, the Rich Starry, a laden oil and chemical tanker heading through the Strait of Hormuz, executed a U-turn confirmed by