The US-Iran deal should allow a return of container shipping to the Strait of Hormuz, but the scale of disruption caused by the blockade puts a recovery of ocean supply chain networks at mid-September 2026, in a best-case scenario, says Xeneta, an ocean and air freight intelligence platform.
The 2026 CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) predictions made one point unmistakable: large-scale disruption is not hypothetical; AI increases both the likelihood and the blast radius of failure. Because of this, business continuity planning will need to evolve accordingly.
