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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 07/09/2026

6/17 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.

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The Persian Gulf Strait Authority: A Toll Booth Nobody Can Use? | Ash Oro

The 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 ...

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 07/09/2026

7/17 Hormuz is not becoming the Sound Dues. But the underlying question is similar: can a state turn unavoidable geography into permission-based access? Modern maritime law was built in part to prevent critical international waterways functioning like privately controlled toll gates.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 07/09/2026

8/17 The important difference today is that the mechanism may not even need to be a literal toll. A vessel can instead acquire a compliance history. Where it sailed, whose instructions it followed, or which vessels it dealt with may determine whether somebody will employ or insure it later.

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