Ships start sailing through Hormuz under U.N. evacuation scheme, agency says

Ships have begun sailing through the Strait of Hormuz under a new scheme by the U.N.’s shipping ​agency to evacuate vessels trapped there by the conflict, a ‌spokesperson said on Wednesday

Ships have begun sailing through the Strait of Hormuz under a new scheme by the U.N.’s shipping ​agency to evacuate vessels trapped there by the conflict, a ‌spokesperson said on Wednesday.

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The initiative, which has taken months to conclude, will enable hundreds of ships with some 11,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf to sail through ​Hormuz, the International Maritime Organization said on Tuesday.

“Ships have already ​begun to pass under the plan,” an IMO spokesperson said ⁠on Wednesday, declining to provide any details of the vessels that ​had crossed.