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This comes as Tehran maintains a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for global energy and fertilizer transit.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

One is called transit, when the planet goes in front of the host star.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

U.S. and Gulf officials said Iran was losing control of the Strait of Hormuz, with millions of barrels of oil passing through an essential waterway for crude-oil transit and the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The recent resumption of oil flowing through the Saudi bypass pipeline, followed by accelerating loadings at the port of Yanbu to transit the Red Sea, will unlock more exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Between departure and arrival, in transit like the passenger she’d been ever since she ran.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

As the conflict between the U.S. and Iran escalated this year, the canal registered an increase in transits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Most confirmed exoplanets have instead been found through transits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Hormuz transits are hard to measure, mostly because ships transiting the strategic waterway turn off their GPS-like signals for security measures and to avoid Iranian attacks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

In 2023, El Nino forced a reduction in daily transits from 38 to 22 due to the dramatic reduction in reservoir levels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

She tracked the regulars on their daily transits through the park, assembling notes and speculations like the compilers of her almanacs.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

It said the Kenyan Ebola patient had transited through the country for less than 24 hours and screening teams had "observed he had a normal temperature at the time of departure".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

Last year, 23 container ships transited through, up from 15 in 2024, according to shipping analysis from business insurer Allianz Commercial.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

The carrier recently transited the Strait of Malacca moving westward alongside guided-missile destroyers, according to ship-tracking data and a U.S. official.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

Commercial ship trackers say the amount of oil transiting the strait is still small compared with what it was before the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

One way crude and a certain amount of crude products are leaving the Persian Gulf and transiting Hormuz is through ship-to-ship transfers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Each transiting ship requiers about 200 million liters of water, which is then discharged into the sea.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Saudi national shipping company, Bahri, confirmed on Wednesday that its vessel Sidr was "involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

We observe only his transit; important to us, forgotten by him, transiting all day.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau