O le taua i Sasa’e i Totonu ma le tapunia ai e Iran o le vāinu'u le Strait of Hormuz, ua tula'i mai ai se fa’afitauli tele i le tau o le malosi'aga ma le sapalai o le suāu'u i le lalolagi.
Ae pei ona fa’aalia e Dmitry Zhdannikov, le fa’atonu o le Energy and Commodities i le fa’alapotopotoga fa’asalalau le Reuters, tusa pe taofia a taeao le taua ma toe tatala le vāinu'u o Hormuz, e 'umi se taimi fa’ato'ā toe fo'i le sapalai o le suau’u i le tulaga na iai ona o le tele o nofoaga e pamu ai le suāu’u mai le ‘ele’ele i Sasa’e i Totonu ua fa’aleagaina i le taua.
"The main problem for the markets is that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of global oil is transiting. But it's more than this; on top of that, there's been extensive damage to oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, in Qatar, in Kuwait, in the UAE. And even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens tomorrow, it will take much longer to resume normal supplies."
Mo le ‘aufaifa’ato'aga i Ausetalia nei, e lē na o le maualuga o le tau o le suāu’u ua avea nei ma 'avega mamafa i le utuina o masini i faato'aga, le tau o le la'uina o fua o faatoa'aga ma manu i le maketi, ae ua fafa atu iai ma le si’itaga maualuga i le tau o le fa’alelei ‘ele’ele, le fertiliser.
E pei ona saunoa Andrew Henderson le pule o le kamupani, AgSecure, i talafou a le SBS.
"So, if we think about the types of things that are going to be impacted, we're looking at liquid fuels first and foremost, obviously with regards to the region that's being disrupted. And then we're going to look at things like fertilisers and the upward pressure that that's going to put on the price of fertilisers, but also the availability of fertiliser for our farmers."
E lata i le 50 pasene o le fertiliser i le lalolagi o loo gaosia ma fa’atauina mai Sasa’e i Totonu.
E pei ona fa’aalia e David Ubilava, Associate Professor o le Economics i le University of Sydney, o le tapunia o le vāinu’u i Hormuz, ua lē na o le suāu'u ua taofia ai ona sao i le lalolagi, ae o nisi o 'oloa sili na mana'omia e le ‘aufaifaato'aga e pei o le fertiliser.
O le 'afa i le 2 vae 3 o le fertiliser o loo fa’aaogāina e le ‘aufaifa’atoaga i Ausetalia o loo fa’atau mai Sasa’e i Totonu.
"And through exactly the same channels as it affects oil, a lot of fertiliser. In fact, probably larger share of global fertiliser exports go through that strait. And Australia is particularly exposed to that because we import half, probably two thirds of our fertiliser from the region."
Na ia saunoa fo'i Andrew Henderson o le AgSecure, a fa’a’umi’umi le taua lenei i Sasa’e i Totonu, o le a molimauina le a’afia ai o le tau o mea'ai i Ausetalia nei.
"If we haven't figured out those fundamentals and this conflict drags on and on and we start to see a real pressure on the supply of those liquid fuels, then of course that means that our ability to be able to distribute food and get it to where it needs to be becomes more and more limited. Now that has a pressure. And we saw on COVID what happened with people when they couldn't access toilet paper. Imagine what's going to happen when people really have problems accessing food on the supermarket shelves. Now we don't want it to get to that, but we need to take a very calm and methodical approach to planning to mitigate that risk. "
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