LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) – An evacuation plan to enable hundreds of ships with some 11,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf to sail through the Strait of Hormuz is underway after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, the United Nations’ shipping agency said on Tuesday.
“We have now started contacting the ships to start the evacuation,” a spokesperson with the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) said, without providing a timeframe.
Article origin: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/06/evacuation-plan-through-hormuz-stranded-ships-gulf-underway-un-agency-say
Original author: Jason Lange
