About The Strait of Hormuz
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Page updated when the policy or the people change
The Strait of Hormuz (thehormuzstrait.com) publishes one dated, sourced number a day: how many ships transited the Strait of Hormuz on the last complete day, measured against the ~88-a-day pre-crisis norm, plus the Brent crude price, US gasoline prices, war-risk insurance and the state of US–Iran diplomacy. The closure began on 28 February 2026; daily SITREPs have run here since 29 September 2026 (an earlier report covers 22 May 2026), and every figure carries its source and its data date.
Status as of 13 Nov 2026: Closed, Day 258. 10 transits on 12 Nov 2026 vs ~88/day pre-crisis. Brent $95.18. Full SITREP →Who runs it
The site is edited by Joshua Moffitt, founder of MOCEAN Strategic Cloud, an IT and cloud services firm in Parker, Colorado, and of Shellback SEO, a technical SEO and web development agency. He is a US Navy veteran who served as an electronics technician. The business is veteran-owned.
The Strait of Hormuz is published by MOCEAN Strategic Cloud and built and maintained by Shellback SEO.
Why it exists
When the strait closed, the daily picture was scattered across paywalled trackers, government statements and headlines that rarely said which day a number referred to. This site was built to answer one question plainly, every day: is the strait open, and how many ships actually got through? The answer is always dated, always sourced, and kept in a permanent archive so that anyone can check what was known on any given day.
Update cadence
- The daily SITREP is published around 10:00 UTC (about 6:00 am US Eastern) and covers the last complete UTC day of transit data.
- The live tracker on the homepage is refreshed at the same time with the same numbers.
- The daily dataset (CSV and JSON) is regenerated from the published SITREPs and may be reused under CC-BY 4.0.
- Transit counts are published by their source one to four days after the fact, so the “data date” is usually earlier than the SITREP date. See the methodology for how each number is defined.
Corrections policy
We would rather be corrected than be wrong in the archive.
- How to report an error: contact the editor through MOCEAN Strategic Cloud and quote the SITREP date and the figure in question. Please include the source you believe is correct.
- What happens next: reports are checked against the original source within one business day. If a published figure is wrong, the SITREP is corrected in place and a dated correction note is added at the bottom of that post (“Correction, 24 Oct 2026: …”). The homepage and dataset are updated at the same time.
- What is not changed: a source revising its own historical number is not an error on our part. In those cases the newer figure is noted in the next SITREP and the original post keeps the number that was published at the time, with a note.
- Disputed counts: when sources disagree (for example, CENTCOM’s percentage statements versus Windward’s vessel counts) the SITREP reports both and says which is used for the headline number.
Funding and independence
The site is funded entirely by MOCEAN Strategic Cloud. It takes no money, data or direction from shipping, insurance, energy or commodity-trading companies, and it carries no advertising. Links to data providers are editorial citations, not sponsorships. The two partner links in the footer (MOCEAN Strategic Cloud and Shellback SEO) are the companies that publish and build the site.
Contact
Editorial and correction requests: via MOCEAN Strategic Cloud. Technical issues with the site: via Shellback SEO.