The first ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz under a UN-backed operation to evacuate thousands of seafarers and restore maritime traffic after weeks of disruption, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The UN shipping agency announced plans on Tuesday to evacuate 11,000 seafarers from the region. The first vessels transited the strategic waterway later the same day, an IMO spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n
The Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global trade and energy supplies, had been effectively paralysed for weeks after Iran began threatening and attacking civilian vessels and the United States subsequently imposed a blockade on Iranian ports.<\/p>\n
The escalation followed joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran that began on February 28. Washington and Tehran have since reached a preliminary agreement to end hostilities.<\/p>\n
The operation is being carried out in close coordination with Iran, Oman, other Gulf states, the US and the shipping industry, according to the London-based IMO.<\/p>\n
Two maritime corridors have been established: a northern route controlled by Iran and a southern route overseen by Oman and the United States. Ships are free to use either passage, the agency said.<\/p>\n
The necessary security guarantees have been secured and safety conditions thoroughly assessed, the IMO added.<\/p>\n
According to the agency, 14 seafarers were killed during the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first ships have passed through the Strait of Hormuz under a UN-backed operation to evacuate thousands of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[2363,444,102,3657,34,50513,101],"class_list":["post-175763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-arabian-gulf","tag-gulf-of-oman","tag-hormuz","tag-international-maritime-organization","tag-iran","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116805937609134260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175763","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=175763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}