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Nairobi, a city of nearly six million residents, is a major transit point for trade with landlocked East African economies, including Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi, and serves as a hub for humanitarian organizations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The mechanism aims to establish monitoring, inspections, maritime insurance and protocols to facilitate safe, orderly transit through the shipping lane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

U.S. and Gulf officials said Iran was losing control of the Strait of Hormuz, with millions of barrels of oil passing through an essential waterway for crude-oil transit and the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Puza said Culver CityBus service will be suspended throughout the weekend to allow the transit agency’s team time to grieve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

After the theater, the next destination is a transit camp elsewhere in the Netherlands.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Crude futures fell as the supply fears fueled by the outage of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline eased, and oil continued to make it through the Strait of Hormuz via ship-to-ship loadings and dark transits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Most confirmed exoplanets have instead been found through transits.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Hormuz transits are hard to measure, mostly because ships transiting the strategic waterway turn off their GPS-like signals for security measures and to avoid Iranian attacks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Espino de Marotta: We have 10 daily transits through the canal’s biggest locks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

One morning when Ishmael was eight years old a pair of surveyors had showed up with their transits and alidades and knotted red flagging everywhere.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

It said the Kenyan Ebola patient had transited through the country for less than 24 hours and screening teams had "observed he had a normal temperature at the time of departure".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

And despite the overall lull in the fighting, Iran fired drones at oil tankers from the United Arab Emirates, another U.S. ally, as they transited the Strait of Hormuz this month.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

That is tiny compared with the Suez Canal, where more than 30 ships transited daily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

In peacetime, about a fifth of the world’s supply of crude and crude products transited through Hormuz.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

And it was all untrue; I found out afterwards how they were transited.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Maritime Trade Operations said a tanker was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the strait Thursday, causing a fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Hormuz transits are hard to measure, mostly because ships transiting the strategic waterway turn off their GPS-like signals for security measures and to avoid Iranian attacks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

North Korea didn’t provide footage of the warship transiting at sea, but claimed it can fire a nuclear-tipped weapon from the roughly 5,000-ton vessel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The Panama Canal will restrict the number of vessels transiting the crucial waterway from Friday for the second time ever due to drought caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

We will expand our global capability for detecting illicit materials, weapons, and personnel transiting abroad or heading for the United States or U.S. interests overseas.

From National Strategy for Combating Terrorism September 2006 by National Security Council (U.S.)