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Mark Douglas
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Mark Douglas is an analyst with Starboard Maritime Intelligence.
Notable Quotes
"There were definitely reasonable grounds to suspect the vessel was without nationality."View Story →
"Traffic has dropped from a typical 50 tankers over 100 metres travelling in both directions every day, down to zero."View Story →
"[It is] getting more pronounced in the following days, until we reach March 3 and an effective halt to tankers through the Strait of Hormuz."View Story →
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Forwarder, a Russian-flagged ship which left port in Primorsk last week, entered the Channel on Wednesday evening.
June 18, 2026Timelapse shows change in the flow of ships in the Strait of Hormuz
A timelapse of marine traffic shows the flow of ships has decreased in the Strait of Hormuz.
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