Six months after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz reshaped the arteries of global energy, New Zealand finds itself in a position few anticipated: exposed but not broken. The country's fuel supply chief, Iain Cossar, speaks with measured confidence about a crisis that could have emptied the nation's tanks, crediting not any single safeguard but the collective improvisation of markets, nations, and logistics chains under pressure. It is a story less about invulnerability than about the quiet resilience of systems that bend without snapping — and about the uncomfortable truth that in a world o