Chokepoint Data · the Strait of Hormuz crisis

Iran strikes three commercial ships in Hormuz; Qatari LNG tanker ablaze

2026-07-07 · shipping · major

Iranian missiles struck three commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz between the night of 6 July and the morning of 7 July, the first major breach of the interim truce. The Qatari LNG carrier Al Rekayyat suffered a port-side engine-room fire and was evacuated, and a Saudi supertanker believed to be the Wedyan was also hit; two vessels sustained significant damage with no casualties, and Qatar publicly blamed Iran.

Brent next close +3.2% · +7 days +20.3% · transits 21.0 → 8.9 per day · reaction near an ordinary day (85.4th percentile)

Attribution caveat: 3 other major event(s) sit inside this one's ±7-day window (2026-07-08 Trump declares ceasefire with Iran over; new wave of US strikes; 2026-07-12 Iran declares Strait of Hormuz closed until further notice; 2026-07-14 US naval blockade of all Iranian ports takes effect), so the reaction is not cleanly separable.

Sources

The National · Axios · Al Jazeera

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Computed, not asserted — every number here is derived from public data: official EIA Brent closes via FRED, IMF PortWatch transit counts, Polymarket and Kalshi odds, and source-linked curated events. Method and caveats · Atom feed · llms.txt

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