Oil exporters race to bypass Strait of Hormuz

After more than four months of closures and attacks in the Strait of
Hormuz, shipping firms are drawing up plans to bypass the crucial
waterway and rob Iran of its ability to hold the world to ransom

Container ship docked
at Jebel Ali port

GULF PORT CARGO CAPACITY (figures in million TEUs*)

Blocked ports

Ports to be expanded

Strait of Hormuz blockade

BAHRAIN
Khalifa Bin Salman Port: 1.1

KUWAIT
IRAN
IRAQ
OMAN
PAKISTAN
QATAR
SAUDI ARABIA
UAE

Shuwaikh: 0.6

Jebel Ali: 19

Khorfakkan: 5

Fujairah: 1.3

Sohar
2.4

Dammam: 3

Hamad: 2

Khalifa: 10

200km
125 miles

INDIAN
OCEAN
Gulf of
Oman
Persian
Gulf 

IRAN
Tehran
500km
310 miles

*Twenty-foot equivalent units

Overland route: Cargo landed at new ports in Oman and eastern coast of
UAE can be loaded onto trucks and driven 250km to Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Source: The Telegraph
Picture: Getty Images
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