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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Tehran has launched a formal permission regime over the Strait of Hormuz. Here’s what it means for shipowners, operators, and seafarers — and why the legal risks may outlast the geopolitics.
The Strait of Hormuz has always been a chokepoint — a narrow neck of water, barely 21 miles wide at its tightest, through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply must pass. But Tehran has now ...read more
Categories: Economic, Education, General News Article, Human Interest, Papers/Research, Political
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
May 25, 2026 · By Charles F. Herd
Francis Scott Key wrote his most famous lines of the poem that would become “The Star-Spangled Banner” while watching cannon fire light up Baltimore Harbor — a lawyer turned poet, scribbling verse by the glow of battle from the deck of the HMS Tonnat, a British sloop. It seems fitting that the bridge bearing his name has now given rise to one of the most ...read more
Categories: Economic, General News Article, Human Interest, Papers/Research, Political, Press Release
