{"id":74827,"date":"2026-05-05T02:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:43:12","slug":"us-navy-escorts-maersk-ship-through-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74827\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy escorts Maersk ship through Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Alliance Fairfax, a US-flagged vehicle carrier operated by its Farrell Lines subsidiary, exited the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz accompanied by US military assets on Monday, said Danish shipping firm Maersk.<\/p>\n<p>American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore commercial shipping through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-895129\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on X\/Twitter on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Alliance Fairfax is part of the US Maritime Security Program, which provides financial stipends to dozens of US-flagged, private commercial vessels that guarantee transport for the US military during a war or national emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Maersk said the transit of the Alliance Fairfax was completed without incident and that all crew were safe and unharmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Maersk bought Virginia-based Farrell Lines in 2007, the US vehicle carrier operator said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Alliance Fairfax was among hundreds of ships stranded in the Gulf with the virtual closure of the Strait of Hormuz in early March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">At least one other US-flagged vessel remains in the Gulf area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alliance Fairfax, a US-flagged vehicle carrier operated by its Farrell Lines subsidiary, exited the Gulf via the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[184,2271,40201,245,823,18003,17961,9318],"class_list":["post-74827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iran-israel","tag-maersk","tag-oil","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-navy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116519672517343553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}