8,000 Seafarers Still Stranded Behind the Strait of Hormuz as Crew Changes Break Down
More than four months into the Gulf war, about 8,000 seafarers from outside the region are still stuck on ships inside the Persian Gulf. At the peak there were far more. In April the IMO put the number at around 20,000 mariners on 2,000 ships. Roughly 11,000 were trapped at the…