Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 07/09/20264/17 This is important because it begins to look like administrative architecture rather than temporary wartime disruption. You do not necessarily need to physically close Hormuz if insurers, charterers, banks and owners start deciding which ships are acceptable to use it. 120
Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 07/09/20265/17 This is something I wrote about in The Hormuz Crisis Volume 1. The central problem was never simply "open or closed". Maritime systems can continue operating while progressively degrading through risk, insurance, selective access and competing claims of control.amzn.euThe Hormuz Crisis Volume 1: The Illusion of Open Seas - February to April 2026The Hormuz Crisis Volume 1: The Illusion of Open Seas - February to April 2026 eBook : Oro, Ash: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store 110
Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 07/09/20266/17 There is an older historical parallel too. I wrote a while ago about the Danish Sound Dues, when Denmark effectively taxed access to the Baltic because geography allowed it to control the route. The eventual international response was to dismantle that system, not merely reduce the charge.linkedin.comThe Persian Gulf Strait Authority: A Toll Booth Nobody Can Use? | Ash OroThe Strait of Hormuz has spent decades being discussed in binary terms: open or closed. The emergence of the Persian Gulf Strait Authority suggests that may no longer be the most useful way to think ... 110