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Shipping traffic through Strait of Hormuz shows conflicting signals

Rank
Ran
43h
Updated
11d ago
Final
Outlets
13
Regions
3
Countries
11
Languages
4

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Where it travelled

The 11 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

31%15%46%

  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 31%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 15%
  • Middle East 6 outlets · 4 countries · 46%
  • International 1 outlet · 8%

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Strait of Hormuz ship traffic drops amid Middle East conflict, 21 to 22 Sept 2026, 32 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
13 outlets in 11 countries, across 3 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 13 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 4: Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam. Europe 2: Greece, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, Greek, English, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article An-Nahar, 23 Sept 2026, 03:31 UTC. First seen 23 Sept 2026, 03:50 UTC. Last seen 24 Sept 2026, 23:12 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Shipping & trade. Hard news Judged hard news, unsure. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
13.59, at the end of the last day measured. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues Strait of Hormuz ship traffic drops amid Middle East conflict. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
24 Sept 2026 (partial) 81 13.59 13 11 13 11 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 23 Sept, 03:50 UTC · Updated 24 Sept, 23:12 UTC

Covered by 13 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • Business Recorder Pakistan
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia
  • Rappler Philippines
  • VOV Vietnam

Europe 2 outlets

  • ERT Greece
  • OilPrice.com United Kingdom

Middle East 6 outlets

  • An-Nahar Lebanon
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates
  • SANA Syria
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates

International 1 outlet

  • INTLMiddle East Eye International

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