Of three vessels remaining in the gulf, Maersk said it would pursue one additional Hormuz transit at a later stage, with the remaining two to be deployed on intra-gulf services.

Of 47,000 containers Maersk had bound for the gulf region at the onset of the conflict, 44,000 have now been delivered, with 3,000 still pending final delivery, according to Maersk.

(Reporting by Stine Jacobsen and Anna Ringstrom, editing by Essi Lehto)