Gavin Friend

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NAB Morning Call · Just passing through · 20 May 2026 podcast

It would seem that this follows the setting up by uh the Iranian authorities of this so-called Gulf Strait Authority, the PGSA, earlier in the week, which Iran says is is is they've described it as the legal entity and the representative authority for managing. voice-verified

the passage and transit through the Strait of Hormuz. voice-verified

So, you know, maybe, maybe partly because these are, you know, as you say, go two going to China, one, but one's going to South uh South Korea. voice-verified

Uh they they're carrying some no less than six million barrels of oil. voice-verified

That's that's a lot uh for recent times. voice-verified

Um and maybe this is the way maybe this is the way forward. voice-verified

Well, and obviously the US blockade, they're never gonna they're never gonna um, you know, uh attack uh a China uh a vessel going to China. voice-verified

Um so we need to see what the US makes of this and what actually, you know, given the sort of discussions this week about NATO possibly coming to this, you know, with some minesweepers and bits and pieces, I don't know if this is a uh voice-verified

Way forward, it seems reasonably positive, you know, away from the talk of military attacks and things. voice-verified

But also, you know, a couple of hours earlier, but uh, you know, Donald Trump still sounded a bit pessimistic about the whole thing. voice-verified

We had a line from the I from the I from the IRGC saying that if the US renewed military attacks, because this has been you know Trump's discussion in recent days, then they would take uh they would retaliate. voice-verified

Beyond the Middle East, you know, uh, to places you would not expect, they said. voice-verified

And recall early in this conflict, there had been missiles going off to Turkey and Cyprus. voice-verified

And so, you know, I don't know where they what they they would be thinking, of course, but you know, there was a there was there was a warning there. voice-verified

There was enough pessimism. voice-verified

And then to your main point, we had this breaking news out of Saudi Arabia first, followed by voice-verified

A White House pool clip of a deal uh between the two sides uh in the final stages. voice-verified

I think that phrase final stages. voice-verified

ca you know, really caught the market's attention, uh alongside, I think, these positive moves in terms of the tankers. voice-verified

Uh and and we didn't, you know, we didn't stop from that point. voice-verified

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