Strait of Hormuz oil supply crunch has countries looking for workarounds

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Middle Eastern nations are building out their oil shipping infrastructure, seeking long-term workarounds for the Strait of Hormuz to make it less of chokepoint. Iran’s blockade of the waterway, through which about 20 percent of the world’s oil consumption flowed on a typical day prior to the war, has upended markets and sent global oil…