Middle Eastern governments are reconsidering long-standing proposals for overland oil and gas pipelines. They are also developing new rail-sea transport corridors to create resilience. This strategic move aims to circumvent major maritime trade disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.

Middle Eastern governments are dusting off decades-old proposals for overland oil and gas pipelines, and urgently drawing up plans for new rail-sea transport corridors in a belated response to the wartime disruption of major maritime trade through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea. With the threats to these key shipping lanes and economic infrastructure set to linger after the multifront conflict between the US-Israel alliance and the Iran-led Axis of Resistance draws to a close, other...