{
  "id": 2898632,
  "title": "Insurance shows Hormuz is a balance sheet, not just a battlefield",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/insurance-shows-hormuz-is-a-balance-sheet-not-just-a-battlefield",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-24T00:10:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/insurance-shows-hormuz-is-a-balance-sheet-not-just-a-battlefield/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Here’s the number that tells you more about this crisis than any missile count: War-risk insurance on a tanker passing through Hormuz used to run about 0.15 percent of the vessel’s value. Barely worth mentioning on a shipping company’s books. At the height of the fighting this year, that same premium climbed to somewhere between […] The post Insurance shows Hormuz is a balance sheet, not just a…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}