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What It’s Like to Steer a Giant Tanker Through the Strait of Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz and the wider Gulf were recently given the highest possible risk designation by the Joint War Committee.
25 Jul 2019, 01:42 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- John Smith is trying to get some rest, but he’s nervous. In a few hours, he’ll navigate his 1,100-foot tanker—a vessel and cargo that together are valued at well in excess of $100 million—through the world’s most important, and lately most dangerous, chokepoint for global energy flows. “There will be six of us on the bridge looking out for ‘fast boats’ approaching,” says Smith, whose name was changed to pr...
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