The effective shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz has blocked the flow of a substantial portion of the energy that powers the global economy.But even if the waterway reopens tomorrow, the disruption to global supply chains will be felt long after ships have been cleared to pass en masse, according to shipping and trade experts.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“When the war is officially over, and the bombardments are stopped, that does not mean that the war is over for logistics, because then the real work starts,” said Nils Haupt, senior director for corporate communications at the German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd.“We will see hundreds of ships who want to call in at the key ports in the Persian Gulf. Lots of containers are going into the region, and we will see disruption of supply chains going to and from the Persian Gulf,” Haupt told Al Jazeera, using another name for the Gulf, which is also known as the Arabian Gulf.At present, some 2,000 ships are stranded in the region amid Iran’s partial blockade of the strait, according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO). It has been allowing passage of only a few vessels from the countries deemed friendly.Among them, about 400 vessels are in the nearby Gulf of Oman, suggesting that ship …
