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So the short version: no new canal was dug. A viral, unconfirmed dredging story is making the rounds https://t.co/WJKCX7jTFs. No new land canal has been dug near the Strait of Hormuz.businesstoday.inWhat is circulating today (29 Aug 2026) is an unverified claim from the Morse Report that satellite imagery shows limited dredging of a previously unused stretch of water on the Omani side of the strait. The claimed corridor is described as roughly 1,600 ft (about 490 m) wide with a natural depth around 93 ft, which could let large tankers use it after some work. There has been no confirmation from the US, Oman, or other official sources. Even if real, it would still be inside the Hormuz area, not a full bypass.businesstoday.inSeparate from that rumor:
Architectural concepts (e.g. a “Union Strait” cutting the Musandam Peninsula) and old 2008-era Dubai mega-canal ideas have been revived in discussion, but they remain unbuilt proposals. Cutting through mountains or desert would be extremely expensive and https://t.co/8SEXiv5pWZ
Practical work happening now is port and pipeline expansion on the Gulf of Oman side (Fujairah, Khor Fakkan, Sohar, etc.) plus land-bridge trucking, not a new shipping https://t.co/qdK0lJ1hlA
Iran and Oman have been negotiating temporary shipping lanes through the existing strait, not a new excavated https://t.co/d05T3E7UAu