{"id":142190,"date":"2026-06-02T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/142190\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:20:10","slug":"companies-and-countries-grapple-with-prospect-of-hormuz-toll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/142190\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies and countries grapple with prospect of Hormuz toll"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the outcome of negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz uncertain, companies and countries are grappling with the prospect that Iran will try to impose long-term fees on passing tankers and commercial ships.<\/p>\n

The US placed sanctions on a newly created Iranian agency<\/a> tasked with collecting transit fees, and warned Oman against participating<\/a> in any fee collection plan. Chevron CEO Mike Wirth also said in an interview with Bloomberg that he will not consider paying a toll<\/a> to move oil through the strait. But Qatar appears to be more flexible, with a top official saying on Sunday that the country would be willing to negotiate on fees collected for mine clearance<\/a> or other short-term activities.<\/p>\n

Next steps for reopening the strait remain unclear: Trump told CNBC on Monday<\/a> \u201cI really don\u2019t care. I couldn\u2019t care less\u201d if talks with Tehran fall through.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A chart showing the arrival of ships in the Strait of Hormuz from before the Iran war until June 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tim McDonnell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the outcome of negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz uncertain, companies and countries are grappling with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[7869,612,102,35402,101],"class_list":["post-142190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-commercial-ships","tag-countries","tag-hormuz","tag-mike-wirth","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116681193949091807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}