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The Middle East war has turned container shipping into a “wild west”, with carriers adding thousands of dollars in charges and dumping containers at far-flung ports, according to removal companies and customers.
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following Iranian strikes and fears of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have prompted shipping lines to suspend bookings and reroute goods. Fire after strikes on Sunday over Dubai’s main port, Jebel Ali, has triggered further cancellations and congestion.
The largest shipping groups, including MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd, have told customers they reserve the right to invoke a 19th-century rule to allow them to leave containers at the nearest available port at their client’s expense.
Charges for shipping containers, meanwhile, have risen as much as fourfold on certain routes
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Sat images show Iranian speedboats leaving the scene after striking a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz
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Former UK Ambassador drops a massive truth bomb: Iran was observing the 2015 nuclear deal to the letter. Trump sabotaged it purely on Israeli advice, and the claims that Iran was cheating are absolute lies debunked by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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️🇨🇳🇹🇼 China offered Taiwan energy stability in exchange for "reunification" with Beijing, — Reuters
- While governments around the world are trying to find alternative energy sources during the war in the Middle East and the blockage of shipping routes, China is offering energy stability.
- "We are ready to provide Taiwanese compatriots with stable and reliable energy and resource security so that they can live better," said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Chinese government.
- Taiwan, which obtained a third of its LNG from Qatar, said it has secured alternative supplies for the coming months, including from the United States.
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You tell em Lyndsey. You and your "greatest president" go bomb those evil bastards.
Cunts, the lot of you. 🖕
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Oil prices soar after Iran strikes
▪️Brent crude exceeded $110 per barrel on the exchange.
▪️Persian Gulf oil prices exceeded $150 per barrel following Israeli strikes on Iran's largest field, South Pars, and Tehran's threat to retaliate by attacking the oil and gas facilities of its adversaries in the Middle East.
Ok double Iskander production and put an extra $50 billion into drone teams. 😎
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🇮🇷🇺🇦I have a "very bad feeling," - Zelensky.
- The war in Iran raises ominous premonitions about the future of Ukraine, - stated Zelensky, who himself had repeatedly called for starting this war in the past.
- "I have very ominous premonitions about the impact of this war on the situation in Ukraine. The focus of the US is more on the Middle East than on Ukraine, unfortunately. That's why you see that our diplomatic meetings, trilateral meetings, are constantly being postponed. And the reason is one - the war in Iran," - said Zelensky to Western media.
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🇩🇪Merz - stated that he does not believe in the success of the US operation in Iran:
But we have also made it clear that we still have many questions about this war. So far, there is no convincing plan for how this operation could succeed. Washington did not consult with us and did not consider European assistance necessary. Ladies and gentlemen, we would advise against further actions in the form they have been carried out so far.
P.S. Daddy won't like it
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The expired one sounded the alarm, as the bosses' attention shifted to the Middle East.
"I have a very bad feeling about the impact of this war on the situation in Ukraine. America's focus is more on the Middle East than on Ukraine, unfortunately. That's why you see that our diplomatic meetings, trilateral meetings, are constantly being postponed. And there's one reason for this: the war in Iran," Zelenskyy said.
It's ironic, because Zelenskyy himself has repeatedly called for this war.
Furthermore, Trump piled on the betrayal, claiming that America has already wasted $400 billion and won't spend another cent on 404.
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▶️ The Iranian oil and gas infrastructure at the South Pars and Assaluyeh fields was subjected to attacks by the US and Israel.
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Posting this in Cathedral instead of Slavyangrad as I haven't given it rigorous verification but I still found it very interesting.
Iranian academic Esfandyar Batmanghelidj recently challenged the Western calculation that a Shahed-136 costs $20000-50000. Arguing that the figure was based on US/Western manufacturing costs rather than what it would actually cost Iran. Furthermore, an academic contact he reached out to in Tehran estimated that the real cost was $4000. He then set out to see how accurate this figure was
His methodology was to use tractor manufacturing costs as a proxy for drones (Iran manufactures equivalent tractors at a 5:1 cost advantage over the US) and then use that ratio to get a more reliable figure. Coming to the conclusion that if the US made LUCAS drone costs $35000 to manufacture, a Shahed-136 likely costs Iran $7000.
He also pointed out that making a Shahed-136 was equivalent in resources and labour to a basic agricultural tractor or small car. For reference, Iran manufactures 35 thousand tractors and 1 million cars every year.
So not only is the US spending ~4 million dollars every time they need to intercept a potentially 4-7k drone, but they are also losing the war 🇷🇺
One of our Slavyangad members found this gem posted somewhere on FB and shared it with us.
Worth a post IMO.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260316-us-allows-iranian-oil-tankers-through-strait-of-hormuz-to-maintain-global-supply-treasury-secretary
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A strike on the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Iran was carried out on the territory adjacent to the metrological service building in the immediate vicinity of the operating power unit, and was the first since the beginning of hostilities, said the head of Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev.
Yesterday at 18:11 Moscow time, a strike was carried out on the territory adjacent to the metrological service building, located on the industrial site of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in the immediate vicinity of the operating power unit. There were no casualties among the staff of the Rosatom State Corporation.
It's not clear yet what it was, but the very fact of an unknown object landing on the territory of the nuclear power plant is very alarming.
We've seen it all on the ZNPP.
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"Wednesday has been declared a special public holiday": Sri Lanka has made Wednesday a day off due to fuel shortages resulting from the war in the Middle East.
"The measures will apply to some government agencies, schools, and universities. 'We also urge the private sector to follow our example and henceforth declare every Wednesday a day off. Heads of government agencies have been granted the right to determine the number of employees who should go to work during the remaining four working days.
However, hospitals, ports, and emergency services will continue to operate as usual. The introduction of these measures is related to concerns about fuel shortages due to the conflict in the Middle East"
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💥Fighting in the Kharkov region: The Northerners continue to massively expose and destroy AFU drone operators
Despite the proximity to the line of contact, the UAF command is actively sending drone operators to the settlement of Veseloe (Kharkov region) to a glorious death. Our scouts have uncovered the exact location of another enemy drone unit, after which our drone operators carried out a series of targeted strikes on buildings with the enemy.
The footage of objective control clearly shows the result of the fire damage to the control point, in which there were no operators or equipment left.
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Given the scale of the shock, many people are understandably surprised that the price of oil hasn’t gone even higher. The oil market’s idiosyncrasies is arguably obscuring the distress.
The two main and commonly quoted crude oil price benchmarks, Brent and WTI blends. So, when people say “oil is at X or Y”, what they’re usually talking about is the per-barrel price of a futures contract for delivery of Brent crude oil in the coming month.
However, the jumps in Brent and WTI — while large and alarming — actually understate the degree of dislocation
Just to hammer home the point, here are charts of the long-term prices of the Dubai and Omani oil, which have now exploded higher than even the infamous 2008 spike. The Oman benchmark has hit a record $173.24 today.
Unfortunately, JPMorgan’s analysts therefore reckon that those wild Oman and Dubai oil prices are likely to prove a harbinger for the larger oil price benchmarks if the Strait of Hormuz isn’t reopened pronto.
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Another tanker hit while trying to pass the Hormuz Strait.
Schrodinger's pool is open / closed.
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"Even with wartime attrition, Russia’s ground forces have grown, and its air and naval forces are intact and arguably more capable than before the full-scale invasion [...]
"Russia is likely to remain resilient against Western sanctions and export controls"
US releases DNI threat assessment
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Moment of truth": Negotiations on Ukraine may force Kyiv to cede territory, - President of Finland
- According to Stubb, the negotiations may even break down, leaving Europe in a difficult situation - without American aid for Ukraine.
- At the same time, Stubb advocates a deal with Trump, which involves an "exchange" of the Strait of Hormuz for aid to Ukraine.
- He called it a "good idea" if Europe agrees to provide military assistance to the US with the unblocking of the strait in exchange for an increase in American supplies to Ukraine.
- Earlier, key European countries refused to participate in the war for the strait.
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BREAKING: Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity says Iranian gas supplies have stopped completely, cutting over 3,000 MW from the national grid after a strike on Iran’s gas infrastructure.
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Some light hearted Trump piss-taking is sometimes relaxing in these turbulent times. 😁
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The Moldovan Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador over the accident at the Ukrainian hydroelectric power station, blaming Russia for it.
The diplomat will be served with a note of protest.
Allegedly, an attack on the Novodnistrovsk hydroelectric power station in Ukraine resulted in oil spills into the Dniester River.
However, the source of the Dniester River pollution was not a "Russian attack on a hydroelectric power station in Ukraine," but a Ukrainian truck carrying 30 tons of fuel that overturned on a bridge in northern Moldova, according to Chisinau municipal councilor Verbitsky.
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Just when you thought you had seen it all over the last 4 years along comes this cracker.
Unfortunately the C word is banned, otherwise I would use it profusely for this post. 😔
“US” ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee expresses gratitude to Benjamin Netanyahu for not including him on his assassination list.
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🇷🇺 The Kremlin strongly condemns the harm to health and the killings of representatives of the leadership of sovereign Iran and other countries
- RF does not consider it necessary to comment on the rumors about assistance to Iran in the current conflict, Peskov emphasized.
- The US gave official comments about the lack of information about Russia's assistance to Iran in the current conflict.
- The energy market is experiencing serious shocks in connection with the war around Iran, which makes it difficult to predict the development of the situation.
- RF received signals from European countries that they want to take a seat at the negotiating table on Ukraine, but considers this unfeasible.
- There were no signals from European countries about the desire to at least conduct a dialogue on the resumption of energy cooperation with Russia.
- The topic of Russia's earlier exit from European gas markets is under consideration and requires a thorough analysis.
- Putin is open to constructive dialogue and discussion of the most acute issues at the negotiating table.
- Peskov agreed with Trump's opinion that the level of current European politicians is not the same as that of their predecessors.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is expected to return to Crete next week, likely for refueling and possibly to investigate a fire that broke out on March 12.
One scenario under review is that the fire may have been deliberately set by crew members seeking to end the prolonged deployment.
Source: Kathimerini
After the toilet blocking episode, and now this, I would say we have ourselves an anti-semite on board the Gerald Ford! 😡
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🇮🇱In Israel, a missile was shot down right above a residential building:
"On Wednesday night, Iran launched a new wave of attacks on Israel. The Israeli National Medical Service reported two deaths as a result of the attack in the central part of the country. At the scene in Ramat Gan, doctors and paramedics confirmed the deaths of a man and a woman with severe shrapnel injuries.'
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Russian journalist and political researcher Maxim Shevchenko:
"I read posts from some Russian-speaking Israelis expressing joy at the killing of children."
"Then these people come to Moscow and St. Petersburg and live among us."
"All of them should have their dual citizenship revoked."
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