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Episode #37: The Minefield Hotline and the UK’s E-commerce Backdoor
Welcome back to Container Bytes! I’m Julia Frohwein, alongside our resident freight expert, Judah Levine. 📍 Let's get "Strait" to it. (Yes, it's a bad joke, but things are moving too fast to pass up a pun). Following the historic US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, the Strait of Hormuz is finally seeing a trickle of traffic. But behind the headlines, the reality is a logistical obstacle course.
In this episode, we expose the secret military hotline opened between the US and Iran to coordinate transits. The traditional middle channel is still a total no-go due to mines, forcing the IMO and…
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