Alice Hancock
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191 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Alice Hancock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you think about the logistics of it, it's a narrow waterway.
It's about 38 kilometers wide at its narrowest point.
The Iranians, we think, have mined the strait.
Well, that's certainly what the U.S.
has said.
So for ship owners, they don't want to run the risk of sending their ships through that when they don't quite know what they're facing.
You've also got the estimate now is there's about 500 ships ready to exit.
And, of course, getting 500 ships through a narrow waterway doesn't happen overnight.
You've got to have a queue, you've got to make sure they don't all run into each other, and there's not kind of a big rush for the exit.
So there's also a sort of tangential issue, which is actually all these ships that have been stuck in the Gulf, they've grown a lot of barnacles and so on on the bottom of their hulls.
And that, in turn, actually affects fuel consumption because it creates a lot more drag.
So they need to get those cleaned.
And so there's a lot of issues you might not think about.
The whole thing is not a sort of flick the switch back on and everything will go back to normal situation.
Estimates vary.
I mean, it's certainly not going to be days.
I would say from what we hear, we interviewed the boss of Mitsui OSK, who's the biggest tanker owner in the world.
He was estimating actually nearer to months for the backlog to be cleared.
And of course, you're not only getting ships out of the Gulf, you want ships to go in so that they can pick up more energy cargos to get them out onto the global shipping routes.
So the whole thing could last well into the summer, if not the early autumn, I think.
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