Somali pirates are hijacking ships again as the Iran war forces commercial vessels to detour around Africa, adding cost and risk for global shipping.

• Ships are avoiding the Strait of Hormuz because of the Iran conflict, taking longer routes that add weeks and about $1 million per trip in fuel and insurance.
• The detour pushes traffic into waters off Somalia, where pirates have already seized at least three vessels including two oil tankers in recent weeks.
• Somali piracy peaked in 2011 with 237 attacks costing the global economy $7 billion, and experts fear that pattern is coming back.
• A US push to reopen the strait, called Project Freedom, collapsed after warships were hit and turned back, a public embarrassment.
• Trump said the US entered the war for Israel, while American gas prices rise, service members have died, and munitions stockpiles are being drained.

Outlook: Shipping costs and gas prices are likely to keep climbing, and oil companies and Israel will probably ask Washington for bailouts once the war winds down.