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shipping was damaging the living standards of families and businesses in the UK and the US. “We need to reopen that strait of Hormuz, to get down energy prices and to strengthen and stabilise
strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world’s oil and gas normally travels, in the wake of the US and Israel’s attack on Iran caused energy costs to spike around the world
shipping channel off the Iranian coastline, which has been closed or heavily restricted since the beginning of the US-Israel assault in February. Marles said the meeting had resolved to back “collective diplomatic, economic
shipping and energy supplies, and to ensure the safety of seafarers, the sources told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. It also calls for an end to Iranian attacks on its Gulf neighbours. Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Strait of Hormuz having been blocked for the past eight weeks, however, those supplies have not been available, prompting a scramble for fuel produced elsewhere. This has pushed up prices dramatically. In late February, before
disruption. He saw no prospect of oil production recovering fully for at least a year, including in the United Arab Emirates, and said that some countries heavily dependent on oil revenues to fund their budget
disruptions to oil supplies from the conflict was “the greatest energy security challenge in history”. A third of the 80 Middle East energy facilities his agency was monitoring had been damaged, he said. Birol warned
Hormuz. Twenty percent of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments transit the waterway during peacetime. The blockage of the strait has triggered a major shortage of oil around the world
Strait of Hormuz starting today.** The president called the operation "Project Freedom" and described it as an effort to free hundreds of ships and crews trapped in the crucial waterway since the start
Strait of [Hormuz](/news/2026/4/24/trumps-may-1-deadline-can-he-continue-war-on-iran-after-that), a narrow waterway once carrying roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, remains effectively closed after the United States and Iran imposed competing [blockades](/news/2026/4/14/how-much-will-us-hormuz-blockade-hurt-iran-and-does-tehran-have-an-escape). Naval blockades