Bloomberg Markets reported that US Central Command said it began launching additional strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday. According to the statement cited by Bloomberg, the objective was to further degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
The development keeps attention on shipping risk in one of the world’s most important oil transit routes. For TankerMap, any escalation tied to Hormuz is directly relevant to crude and product tanker flows, voyage security, insurance costs and routing decisions across the Gulf export system.