🚨 Major improvement in Hormuz traffic
There is one consequential new development since the last update.
Reported by a U.S. official, but not independently verified: About 60 commercial vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, September 23, carrying roughly 22 million barrels of oil out of the Gulf. The official told Reuters this was the largest daily crude volume through Hormuz since early July. Roughly 40 of the ships reportedly coordinated with U.S. forces for protection. Reuters explicitly says it could not independently verify those figures. �
The Times of Israel +1
That is a dramatic change from Monday, when preliminary tracking showed only two commodity vessels making the crossing. �
Reuters
Why it matters: If this level of traffic proves sustainable, it would represent a substantial restoration of Gulf oil flows even before Washington and Tehran reach an agreement. Before the war, roughly 125 large commercial vessels normally crossed Hormuz each day, so traffic is not back...
Today’s Thought
12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
I Corinthians 2:13, 14 KJV King James Version
13We also speak of these things, not in words taught or supplied by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual thoughts with spiritual words [for those being guided by the Holy Spirit]. 14But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters].
I Corinthians 2:13, 14 AMP Amplified Bible