Hormuz Watch
A live shipping and supply-chain dashboard for the Strait of Hormuz — combining AIS vessel data, attack reports, and insurance zone changes into one ETA-aware alert feed.
Freight forwarders, importers, and cargo insurers with vessels or cargo transiting the Gulf
- Live map of commercial vessels in the Strait with color-coded risk based on last 24h of attacks
- Auto-updated ETAs that factor in reroutes, naval escorts, and insurance war-risk surcharges
- API + email alerts for any vessel-of-interest (your container, your supplier's bulk carrier)
- PDF 'situation report' auto-generated for customs and insurance paperwork
Rubio's pledge to 'protect' Hormuz shipping means routings and war-risk premiums are shifting weekly; ops teams need a single source of truth.
UNCTAD-cited war risk premiums have surged from $250k to $1M–$5M per voyage on $100M hulls, Maersk/MSC/CMA CGM are rerouting via Cape of Good Hope, and FreightWaves SONAR just shipped a dedicated Iran conflict dashboard — clear, live ops pain.AWRP - War Risk Premiums Surge - Hormuz War Risk Insurance: From $250,000 to $5 Million ↗SONAR Launches New Geopolitical Alert and Fuel Dashboards to Help Supply Chains Navigate Iran Conflict Volatility ↗War risk premiums surge as Hormuz crisis forces rerouted sailings threatening India's trade ↗
The exact 'Hormuz AIS + alerts' niche already has at least 5 free public dashboards (straitofhormuztracker.com, hormuzstraitmonitor.com, hormuzradar.live, hormuz.data-tracking.net, aghozlan/hormuz-dashboard) and is now overlapped by FreightWaves SONAR, MarineTraffic, Shipfix and SupplyOn — the 'single source of truth' pitch is largely taken.Strait of Hormuz Live Tracker — Real-Time Shipping & Oil Crisis Monitor ↗Live Strait of Hormuz Vessel Tracker | Real-Time Shipping Maps ↗Geopolitical Alert and Fuel Dashboard for Supply Chain - SONAR ↗
Premium hikes of $750k–$4.75M per voyage prove enormous willingness to pay to protect $100M assets, and MarineTraffic/Shipfix/SONAR already monetize enterprise freight customers — but a free-tier of public trackers caps the price ceiling for a Hormuz-specific wrapper.MarineTraffic Online Services | Plans comparison ↗Shipfix - Veson Nautical ↗AWRP - War Risk Premiums Surge - Hormuz War Risk Insurance ↗
The Strait remains a structural chokepoint for ~20% of global oil flows, so the use case won't vanish, but crisis-specific alert urgency fades when tensions de-escalate and the feed competes with general news.Shipping Surcharges Surge for Strait of Hormuz Cargo Following Iran Intervention ↗
Buildable as a thin layer stitching together existing AIS APIs (MarineTraffic, AISHub), news/RSS feeds, and the publicly reported AWRP premium movement — no proprietary data acquisition required.Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking · Real-Time AIS Ship Tracker ↗MarineTraffic Online Services | Plans comparison ↗