The employee of the Baltic Stock Exchange who is responsible for calculating the oil shipping cost index staged a "silent protest" in March over the continued publication of tariffs despite the cessation of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. He left notes in working papers "a pointless bet" and "the same nonsense," writes Bloomberg. This was learned during the trial, which challenged the stock exchange's decision not to suspend the publication of the index in the first months of the war between the United States and Israel against Iran.