{"id":105269,"date":"2026-05-09T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105269\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:55:10","slug":"exclusive-100-hong-kong-linked-ships-stranded-in-strait-of-hormuz-amid-middle-east-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/105269\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | 100 Hong Kong-linked ships \u2018stranded in Strait of Hormuz\u2019 amid Middle East war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 ships registered in Hong Kong or locally managed or owned are stranded in the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> along with an estimated 2,300 seafarers, an industry leader has said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Richard Hext, chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association, told the South China Morning Post on Friday that it was very risky to sail vessels through the strait due to the risk of attack, even though the United States and Iran had recently reached a temporary ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United States-Israel war against Iran has sparked a global fuel crisis and disrupted supply chains as the narrow waterway handles 20 per cent of the world\u2019s oil.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf you have a ship that is stuck inside the Strait of Hormuz, it\u2019s very risky to try and sail it out, because there\u2019s a chance that someone will fire at the ship,\u201d Hext said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He said the Hong Kong-linked ships stuck in the waterway were either registered in the city or managed or owned by Hong Kong companies.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSo if it\u2019s 100 ships, and you calculate about 23 seafarers on each ship, then that is 2,300 seafarers who are stuck on the Hong Kong ships,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 100 ships registered in Hong Kong or locally managed or owned are stranded in the Strait of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[36457,4331,36455,36461,102,34,36458,36456,49,42,36459,36454,26472,4330,101,153,36453,36460],"class_list":{"0":"post-105269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-amy-chan","9":"tag-hong-kong","10":"tag-hong-kong-logistics-management-staff-association","11":"tag-hong-kong-shipowners-association","12":"tag-hormuz","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-jns-shipping","15":"tag-mao-congjian","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-richard-hext","19":"tag-richards-hogg-lindley","20":"tag-scmp","21":"tag-south-china-morning-post","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-william-lai","25":"tag-yung-pik-ki"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116544964037665375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}