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Shipping an oil tanker now costs more than launching a SpaceX rocket

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“Shipping an oil tanker now costs more than launching a SpaceX rocket”

The U.S. war with Iran, Houthi threats causing circumnavigation of Africa and severe shortages of tankers have driven up costs ninefold, to the level that shipping rates are the highest since the first supertankers began operating in the 1960s

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