The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in late February 2026 has transformed a long-theorised energy security vulnerability into a present crisis. Maritime traffic through the Strait has collapsed by more than 90 per cent, removing approximately 17-20 million barrels of oil per day from global markets, the largest single energy disruption in modern history. This monograph examines the United Arab Emirates' cross-peninsula logistics corridor linking Sharjah Port Khalid on the Persian Gulf to the Port of Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman as the world's only existing partial bypass of the Hormuz chokepoint.
Vipul Tamhane (Fri,) studied this question.