{"id":2471,"date":"2026-03-04T07:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2471\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:34:06","slug":"dutch-dredgers-stuck-in-persian-gulf-following-attacks-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/2471\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch dredgers stuck in Persian Gulf following attacks on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 100 Dutch ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf because of the war between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, Dutch ship owners association KVNR has told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fd.nl\/bedrijfsleven\/1587979\/kleine-honderd-nederlandse-schepen-vast-in-de-golf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Financieele Dagblad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dredgers-768x486.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of Van Oord<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/2026\/03\/dutch-ships-stuck-in-persian-gulf-following-attacks-on-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dutch News<\/a>, the vessels are mainly operated by dredging companies such as Van Oord and Boskalis, along with other offshore firms active in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety of our colleagues in the region and on board our ships is our top priority and we are in daily contact with them,\u201d a Van Oord spokesman said. \u201cBased on the most recent information, our people are currently safe and we hope the situation does not escalate further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Airspace over Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates has been closed, flights have been cancelled and thousands of people have been stranded since the fighting broke out.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch government said on Monday that it is\u00a0too dangerous\u00a0to attempt to evacuate nationals who wish to return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 100 Dutch ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf because of the war between the United States&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[1969,34,37,39,1970],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-boskalis","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-persian-gulf","tag-van-oord"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116169753488890466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","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=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}