Red Sea Tanker Traffic Hits Multi-Month Low as Houthi Threat Holds
Context
More than half a dozen empty supertankers are currently en route to Egypt’s Sidi Kerir port to pick up Saudi crude as the world’s top crude oil exporter is re-routing – again – its export tactics to avoid the new threat for the Middle East’s chokepoints, the Bab el-Mandeb in the Red Sea. Since the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen announced last week a blockade on Saudi shipments in the southern Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Saudi Arabia has been shuttling more crude from Yanbu to the Egyptian port of Ain Sukhna on…
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No call: the only market channels here were low-conviction — below our selectivity bar, where the track record shows no reliable edge.
Causal chain
No clear market signal
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