In Reply to: How can people keep writing/saying this? posted by mh on July 31, 2026 at 09:19:52
According to Gemini...
The July 2026 Collapse by the Numbers
Maritime tracking data from sources like Lloyd's List Intelligence and Kpler shows a sudden, drastic drop-off in traffic through the critical Bab el-Mandeb Strait (the southern entrance to the Red Sea):
Weekly Transits: Weekly ship passages through the strait plunged from a normal average of around 350 transits down to fewer than 125 transits by late July.
Daily Lows: On Sunday, July 26, visible commodity transits hit a multi-month low of just 11 vessels in a single day.
Suez Canal Meltdown: Concurrently, Suez Canal transits dropped from over 250 per week down to around 100.