{"id":135307,"date":"2026-03-25T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shipping.einnews.com\/article\/901710880"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:06:03","slug":"failure-to-secure-red-sea-shipping-casts-shadow-over-strait-of-hormuz-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/failure-to-secure-red-sea-shipping-casts-shadow-over-strait-of-hormuz-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to secure Red Sea shipping casts shadow over Strait of Hormuz plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES\/LONDON \u2013 <\/span> <\/p>\n

The Western allies trying to negotiate a way to protect the Strait of Hormuz for energy shipping face a stark reality: A similar effort in the Red Sea that started years earlier cost billions of dollars and ultimately failed against Yemen’s Houthis.<\/p>\n

The costly Red Sea experience \u2014 four ships sunk, more than $1 billion in weapons expended, and a route the shipping industry still largely avoids \u2014 looms over the more complex Strait of Hormuz, the shipping artery used by roughly a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas supply and now blocked by Iran, a more formidable adversary than the Houthis. <\/p>\n

Iran’s threats to the strait and its attacks on energy infrastructure in nearby Gulf nations have sent oil prices soaring in the worst disruption to oil and gas supplies in history. Absent the strait’s reopening, shortages will become more acute, \u200cthreatening higher \u200ccosts for energy, food and numerous other products worldwide. <\/p>\n

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