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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 a "guillotine issue." The U.S. [set a record for LNG exports in March](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-lng-exports-break-record-high-middle-east-war-disrupts-global-supply-2026-04-01/), but the U.S. only has so much capacity for production and exports. Making LNG requires cooling
Strait of Hormuz may create the impression that the world cannot function without fossil fuels. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every single industry can and must decarbonise. For global shipping, this process would
global market – bigger than the 1970s oil shocks – according to the International Energy Agency.  The MSC Francesca is seen during a seizure by the IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz
Strait of Hormuz, January 17, 2012 [Raheb Homavandi/Reuters] ## What’s in Chabahar port for India? In southeastern Iran, perched on the Gulf of Oman, the Chabahar port comprises two terminals: Shahid Kalantari and Shahid Beheshti
important mediating role as its leaders hold high-level talks in Tehran and the Gulf. Amid a renewed push to end the war, a Pakistani delegation, led by army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir
ships and fire at a third. By the middle of the week, it was uncertain whether the second round of US-Iran talks would happen. That dynamic changed on Friday morning. ## Flurry of calls Araghchi
global maritime trade. It's a move aimed at increasing economic pressure on Iran after weeks of U.S. strikes have failed to persuade the country's leaders to agree to end the war on Washington
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