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Oil Shipping Costs Reach Dizzying New Highs on Hormuz Snarls

SupplyChainBrain Trade press Published 8th October 2026 US

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What the source reported

Source-reported

It now costs $77 million to hire a very large crude carrier to move U.S. oil to Asia, according to data from the Baltic Exchange.

Publication
SupplyChainBrain · Trade Publication
Published
8th October 2026
Original report
supplychainbrain.com

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
US
Organisations
None identified
Collected
8th October 2026 · 04:27

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Moderate (24.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (12.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (31.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth