Fact-check: “shipping through the Strait of Hormuz returning to more normal levels”
Verdict: Partly True (72% confidence)
The direction of the claim is accurate — shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been rising since a US-Iran deal was announced in mid-June 2026, moving from roughly 5–10% of historical throughput to somewhere around 40–50% of the pre-conflict baseline by late June 2026. But the level is still well short of 'normal': the historical baseline is approximately 135–138 vessels per day, while CENTCOM reported 55 ships on June 20 and the IMO charted 66.3 on June 24. Analysts and multiple sources sa…
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