Rimland Dispatch·19h agoA third US carrier enters the malacca strait while hormuz burnsThe USS Theodore Roosevelt's transit through Malacca leaves Singapore after a three-day port visit, putting three American carriers in the…
Rimland Dispatch·Oct 22The malacca toll proposal that exposed asia's chokepoint anxietyAn Indonesian minister floated charging ships to transit the Strait of Malacca — then retreated within days — as Hormuz traffic ran 70…
Rimland Dispatch·Oct 8Satellite slick detection reshapes malacca and hormuz enforcementNew orbital monitoring of illegal tanker discharges gives littoral states evidence they previously lacked, but prosecution still stalls on…
Rimland Dispatch·Sep 25Iran's 20 percent hormuz cargo fine turns transit rules into revenueTehran's new parliamentary measure lets it seize a fifth of any tanker's cargo for unauthorized passage, while Malacca states quietly…
Rimland Dispatch·Sep 19India's andaman Build-Up tests malacca strait chokepoint mathNew tri-service command at Campbell Bay sits 160 km from the strait's western approaches, as Hormuz disruption pushes 23.2 million barrels…