{"id":16523,"date":"2026-03-28T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=16523"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:36:15","slug":"uae-pushes-khorfakkan-dammam-trade-corridor-to-bypass-hormuz-chokehold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/uae-pushes-khorfakkan-dammam-trade-corridor-to-bypass-hormuz-chokehold\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Pushes Khorfakkan-Dammam Trade Corridor To Bypass Hormuz Chokehold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is interesting, and could make the UAE and lot of money. I&#8217;d like to see volume analysis compared with expense to cargo, and how quickly it could be up and running. Consequently, the UAE is always of interest as I think the <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/babylon-and-luxurious-living-home-of-antichrist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crown prince of Dubai is the coming Antichrist<\/a>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/antichrist-revelation-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seven emirates of the UAE being the seven heads of the Beast in Revelation<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedeepdive.ca\/uae-hormuz-bypass-corridor\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=uae-hormuz-bypass-corridor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/thedeepdive.ca\/uae-hormuz-bypass-corridor\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=uae-hormuz-bypass-corridor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_f121b0ab-c84f-4cf9-8413-46105023f5ef\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedeepdive.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/header-template.001-100.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281660\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The UAE\u2019s push to route cargo through Khorfakkan and onward to Saudi Arabia is a logistics hedge against Hormuz disruption that targets not just energy risk, but the Gulf\u2019s broader dependence on imported essentials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>By ER Velasco<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE is advancing a Sharjah-to-Saudi trade corridor that would reroute cargo around the Strait of Hormuz, shifting part of Gulf logistics toward the Gulf of Oman and reducing dependence on a chokepoint that handles roughly 20% of global oil trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The corridor centres on Khorfakkan, a port in Sharjah positioned outside the Strait on the Indian Ocean side of the UAE. The location allows vessels to discharge cargo without entering the Gulf at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practical terms, that gives the UAE a rare geographic advantage among Gulf states. It is the only Gulf country with coastlines both behind the Strait on the Persian Gulf and outside it on the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed route would move goods arriving at Khorfakkan across UAE territory and onward into Saudi Arabia, ultimately linking with logistics networks serving Dammam, the kingdom\u2019s eastern commercial hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedeepdive.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281654\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup>Source: bne IntelliNews<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world\u2019s most sensitive maritime chokepoints, and any disruption there affects more than crude exports. A blockage constrains oil and gas leaving the Gulf, but it also impedes food and other essential goods entering it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khorfakkan\u2019s role in the contingency planning has grown because the port is already a meaningful container hub and has been expanded in recent years to handle larger ships and higher cargo volumes. Those upgrades increase its utility not just as a domestic port asset, but as a regional fallback node.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No official timeline has been announced, which limits visibility into execution speed and near-term capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting, and could make the UAE and lot of money. I&#8217;d like to see volume analysis compared with expense to cargo, and how quickly it could be up and running. Consequently, the UAE is always of interest as I think the crown prince of Dubai is the coming Antichrist, with the seven emirates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16524,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions\/16524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}