Iran Shifts Grain Imports to Gulf of Oman With Hormuz Locked Up

Iran appears to be shifting import routes to secure key grains, ensuring it can bring in staple food supplies while the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively shut.

Iran’s Shahid Beheshti port in Chabahar, on the Gulf of Oman, has seen crop shipments rise to more than 120,000 tons this week, according to data from ship tracker Kpler. That’s about 12% more than deliveries into the country’s usual grains hub, Bandar Imam Khomeini port, or BIK, in the Persian Gulf.