Dubai has only ten days of fresh food left after the closure of the Straits of Hormuz has cut the United Arab Emirates (UAE) off from all its imports, including food. In Abu Dhabi, with the prospect of the region becoming unliveable, real estate prices are also collapsing.
As bne IntelliNews reported, the Hormuz chokepoint could kill Dubai, a hub of investment and business in the region. The Gulf countries don’t have any water and don’t produce much food for their combined population of around 60mn people. Fresh products in particular like vegetables and fruit are almost all imported. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) closed the Straits of Hormuz to oil exports on March 2, but the embargo also effectively blocked all food imports at the same time.
The Emirates imports between 80% and 90% of its food, with roughly 70% of food shipments to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries normally passing through the Strait of Hormuz on the 100- odd ships that traversed the Straits until a week ago.
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Have they heard of airplanes? They flew through the air and can bring food and equipment along for the ride?
Tell me you haven’t read the article without telling me you haven’t read the article.
Can’t they just deliver shipments on the east coast and drive it in? It’s not far
Pity they abandoned the railroads
They are planning them again. They don’t have exit road space to fit all their trucks
Huzzah!!!
Not an expert, but if all your deliveries had short drives and now they’re all long drives; you are way short on trucks.
It’s like 1 hour 30 min max
The whole country runs on long haul trucks.
They can easily figured out a solution
Well they must just all be morons then since they live there but you solved it with no actual information about their infrastructure or logistics or anything. That’s the kind of people we need in the C suite!
Just saying they’ll figure it out
I mean yeah they’ll figure it out, they’ve got enough money. It’s just very unlikely to be so simple.