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transit

[tran-zit, -sit] / ˈtræn zɪt, -sɪt /


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The route also deprived Poland of transit fees for the gas.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

“Prices stay hostage to Hormuz transit data and any signal from the Iran-Oman channel. A durable reopening would cap upside, while further escalation points toward a retest of the $95 to $100/barrel band for Brent.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

“I would not recommend going deeply into hydrogen today,” said Derek Toups, deputy planning director of a small transit agency in Santa Cruz, when asked directly on a panel.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Tehran signalled last week that it had agreed with Oman a route for ships to transit the strait and were finalising arrangements to jointly manage the waterway.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

They still feel somehow in transit, still disconnected from their lives, bound up in an alternate schedule, an intimacy only the four of them share.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Strait of Hormuz transits fell to eight on Thursday, down from an average of 30 last week and roughly 130 a day before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The number of ships using this Omani route grew to a peak of 28 vessels on 25 June, Kpler's data shows, overtaking the number of transits via the Iranian route.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

On the same day there were 15 inbound tanker transits and 5 VLCCs.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

One morning when Ishmael was eight years old a pair of surveyors had showed up with their transits and alidades and knotted red flagging everywhere.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

And despite the overall lull in the fighting, Iran fired drones at oil tankers from the United Arab Emirates, another U.S. ally, as they transited the Strait of Hormuz this month.

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

In peacetime, about a fifth of the world’s supply of crude and crude products transited through Hormuz.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Overall, more than 34 million barrels of Iranian crude oil have transited the Strait of Hormuz since the U.S. lifted its blockade on June 18, according to Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

At the time of the appearance of the great comet of 1843, it was doubtful whether the comet had transited the sun’s disc.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore

Environmental groups warn that increasing numbers of ships transiting the shorter NSR could accelerate loss of Arctic sea ice -- already made vulnerable by rising global temperatures.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

The catering vehicle can then be seen transiting in the distance to the smaller C-32A aircraft.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

It adds that the vessel "is no longer transiting to Iran".

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Talks have been complicated by Iran’s demand to collect tolls from ships transiting the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Every nation bears responsibility for the people and goods transiting its borders.

From National Strategy for Combating Terrorism February 2003 by United States. Executive Office of the President




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