Gulf Corridor Index
Strait of Hormuz Crisis Intelligence & Decision Platform
An index tells you the weather. It does not tell you whether to sail.
Gulf Corridor Index was built around that gap. Through the Strait of Hormuz passes ~21% of the world's oiland hundreds of billions in cargo — and when it seizes up, the question an operator faces is not “how bad is it?” but what does this do to my box, my margin, and my customer's line this week, and what is the one thing I do this morning? GCI pairs a live corridor risk score with the calculators that turn it into an actual decision.
The layer that answers what to do — and what it costs if you do nothing.
Paste your box list and see exactly what demurrage and detention are costing you — live accrual, seven- and fourteen-day projections, and a priority order driven by the marginal cost of inaction rather than sunk cost. Models the escalating tier structure carriers actually bill on, because flat-rate maths badly understates the tail.
Validates any container number against ISO 6346 using its check digit — catching transcription errors offline, with certainty. Identifies the carrier from the owner prefix across 14 major lines and links straight through to that carrier’s own tracking page with the number pre-filled.
Seven Hormuz-region alternatives compared side by side — Hormuz Direct, Khor Fakkan, Salalah, Jeddah, the Jeddah/KAP land bridge into the GCC, Cape of Good Hope, and air freight — ranked by cost, speed, or safety with GCI-adjusted pricing.
Fifteen questions to take into the broker call — cancellation notice periods, per-voyage versus held-covered terms, trading warranties, and whether diversion losses are covered at all. Deliberately not a quote engine: an invented premium is worse than none. Exports as an email to your broker.
The layer that tells you it is coming, before your carrier does.
A 0–100 composite risk index fusing vessel transits, geopolitical severity, war-risk pricing, and port congestion. Every component carries a provenance badge on the number itself — live, estimated, or modelled — so you always know what you are looking at.
Hormuz-relevant headlines aggregated from Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera, BIMCO, the US Navy and other maritime sources, severity-scored so you see signal rather than volume.
An embedded advisor for logistics, shipping, trade and energy questions — grounded in the live corridor data, so it answers with your current score, fuel prices and headlines rather than generic theory.
Live WTI and Brent crude with derived Singapore bunker prices for IFO 380, VLSFO and MGO, drawn from a three-source fallback chain so a single provider outage does not blank the panel.
Set GCI thresholds and route-availability triggers, and get notified the moment corridor risk crosses the line you care about.
The full formula, component weights, every data source, and a plainly-stated list of known limitations. Opacity destroys trust with operators, so nothing about how this score is built is hidden.
In a crisis, every hour of delay is a cost — and the invoice nobody priced arrives weeks later. GCI exists so that cost is visible while you can still do something about it.
Stated plainly, because in this business one number presented as more certain than it is costs you the reader permanently.
- It does not pull live container milestones without a commercial tracking provider connected — validation, carrier identification and carrier links work regardless.
- It does not quote war-risk premiums. Those are priced per voyage and per hull by underwriters; any number generated here would be fiction.
- It does not replace your carrier tariff. Demurrage rates are yours to enter — the calculator supplies the arithmetic, not the contract.
- Where a figure is modelled rather than measured, the interface says so on the number. If it disagrees with your own AIS or terminal data, trust yours.
Gulf Corridor Index was conceived and built from a frustration shared by every supply chain professional who has scrambled for reliable Hormuz risk data during a crisis — only to find scattered news articles, lagging indices, and costly data subscriptions.
With a background in global supply chain operations and deep expertise in maritime logistics, GCI was designed to close the gap between raw geopolitical data and the operational decisions logistics teams make every day — route selection, container clearance, cargo insurance, and working-capital exposure at one of the world's most critical trade chokepoints.