{"id":97885,"date":"2026-05-04T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97885\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:46:13","slug":"us-military-accompanies-commercial-carrier-through-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97885\/","title":{"rendered":"US military accompanies commercial carrier through Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maersk said the Alliance Fairfax, a U.S.-flagged vehicle carrier operated by its Farrell Lines subsidiary, exited the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> accompanied by U.S. military assets on Monday.<\/p>\n

American forces are actively assisting efforts<\/a> to restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command said on the social media site X on Monday.<\/p>\n

Some 20% of the world\u2019s oil passed through that vital maritime chokepoint prior to its virtual closure following the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a first step, 2 U.S.-flagged merchant vessels have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d CENTCOM said Monday on X, adding that U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers are operating in the Gulf under a directive called \u201cProject Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maersk said the transit of the Alliance Fairfax was completed without incident and that all crew were safe and unharmed.<\/p>\n

Maersk bought Virginia-based Farrell Lines in 2007, the U.S. vehicle carrier operator said. <\/p>\n

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

At least one other U.S.-flagged vessel remains in the Gulf area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maersk said the Alliance Fairfax, a U.S.-flagged vehicle carrier operated by its Farrell Lines subsidiary, exited the Gulf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[34252,1530,1529,1528,2930,102,196,1718,2540,212,34251,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-97885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-alliance-fairfax","9":"tag-circulated-defense-news","10":"tag-circulated-military-times","11":"tag-circulated-navy-times","12":"tag-dn-dnr","13":"tag-hormuz","14":"tag-iran-war","15":"tag-maersk","16":"tag-military-times","17":"tag-operation-epic-fury","18":"tag-operation-freedom","19":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116518504570580802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97885","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=97885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}