To keep shelves stocked, grocery chain Spinneys used a new route that included haulage by road to bring goods from the UK to the UAE, almost 5,000 kilometers away, according to an earnings presentation in May. DP World Ltd., one of the world’s biggest container port operators, has started using a network of roads running through the Arabian peninsula and as far away as Turkey and Iraq after the near-blockage of Hormuz cut traffic to its massive port of Jebel Ali in Dubai.