Hormuz turns into data void

- Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is not only slowed — vessel GPS, AIS signals and identities are being jammed or falsified, creating a “data void” for carriers and shippers. - The key detail: carriers report AIS blackouts and fake vessel flags that leave location and identity information unreliable during Hormuz transits. - That degraded trust in movement data raises operational risk for routing, ETAs and exception workflows, undermining decision quality across procurement, ops and finance. (fortune.com)