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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

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

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