Fujairah

What happens when one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints can no longer be treated as reliable?

FUJAIRAH: Bypassing Hormuz examines how the UAE built an alternative route to the open sea—and how infrastructure can turn geography into strategic optionality.

From the Port of Fujairah and the Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline to storage, bunkering, ship-to-ship transfers, landbridges and new east-coast container capacity, Alexander Brovkin traces the system that allows part of the region’s trade to move without making the Strait of Hormuz the only route.

The book follows the economics behind the bypass: insurance, freight, tanker markets, infrastructure ownership, China’s changing supply routes, Jebel Ali, and the price of resilience. It asks not whether Hormuz can be replaced, but what happens when governments and markets pay in advance for the ability to choose another route.

A book about maritime trade, energy, infrastructure and geopolitics—and about why redundancy can become an asset when the shortest route is no longer the safest or most predictable.