The shipping industry has the antibodies to overcome the Strait of Hormuz crisis. This was underlined by the president of Federagenti, Paolo Pessina: "I realize - he specified - to swim against the current, but while recognizing gravity of the crisis in the Persian Gulf and therefore the criticality of the Strait of Hormuz (through which, however, a number of no better of oil tankers, especially if bound for China, is transiting), I would like to say that shipping (ships, companies shipping companies, ports and us shipping agents) once again will be able to respond to the emergency with the flexibility and ability to adapt that he has also demonstrated in times recent ones".

"Today," Pessina added, "we cannot afford to underestimate the current crisis, but I would like to remind you how many days, more than four months, the most important way of the world's water, that of the Suez Canal, has been forced to drastically reduce transits due to missiles from the Yemen, and how from 1967 to 1975 the canal was closed totally. Hormuz is without a doubt a choke point of strategic planetary value, and today the more than a thousand ships blocked cannot fail to generate alarm. But in the power plants of the large shipping companies, also with the contribution of our maritime agencies, solutions are already being studied alternatives, knowing full well that the time factor will be decisive".

"As in any conflict - concluded the president of the Federation of Italian Shipping Agents - The Ways of the Sea will make a difference and it will be very difficult to think of a Strait of Hormuz open only to ships bound for China and closed to all the others, whether tankers or container ships. Today The main objective is to minimize the risks even and especially for the crews. We hope that in a short time it will be scenario can change in the direction of a progressive normalization. Interests (just think of oil and gas and to the economy of all the countries bordering the Gulf) are of such magnitude that the world community hardly does not will find an operational solution".

Perhaps - as Pessina argues - the world community will find an operational solution. Certainly in the immediate future, but even in the near future if the ongoing conflict in the region does not The impact of rising prices on economies will be resolved soon cost of energy will undoubtedly be felt, given that oil and gas fields are not replaced by today to tomorrow. Maritime transport can now perhaps support the increase in costs by passing them on to its customers, but it is likely to have the effects of the crisis on the industrial production and consumption will have a very important influence on the Shipping was also negative. It is no coincidence that Pessina hopes for a The situation is about to return to normal.