Route notes
Oil transit routes, written down
These notes sit beside the live AIS map. They cover tanker traffic at named chokepoints and destination shifts that the map can show in motion but cannot archive. Every figure is taken from a dated, named source.
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Hormuz · August 2026
Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic after the Islamabad MoU expired
Kpler counts fell into single-digit daily crossings in mid-August as the 60-day memorandum window closed, tankers were attacked, and a Gulf backlog piled up.
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Africa · Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope reroutes while Hormuz is constrained
When the Gulf exit is blocked and Bab-el-Mandeb is unsafe for Saudi-linked hulls, tankers burn weeks rounding southern Africa — or take the long Suez–SUMED–Cape detour to Asia.
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Atlantic · Venezuela
Venezuela tanker routes in 2026: United States versus China and India
Reuters put July exports at about 1.16 million barrels a day, with US-bound cargoes at 786,000 bpd — the highest since early 2019 — while China dropped out and India slowed.