Hundreds of vessels are sitting idle in the Persian Gulf. The global supply chain was never built to absorb that kind of stoppage. Ian Ralby, a former maritime crime expert for the United Nations and president of Auxilium Worldwide, breaks down what a closure of this scale actually costs and why the recovery timeline is longer than most people are being told.

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