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Reuters reported on 9 July that only two tankers had transited the Strait of Hormuz early that day after renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities, versus a recent average of about 40 ships and a pre-war norm of 125-140. A Qatari LNG tanker remains stranded off Oman after a projectile strike. War-risk underwriters advised pausing voyages, raising fresh supply-chain disruption risk.