WORLD● ELEVATEDJun 25 · Jun 25, 2026, 12:11 PM
Evacuation of sailors stuck in Gulf likely to take weeks
France 24 [en]
A new scheme by the International Maritime Organisation to evacuate some 11,000 commercial sailors stuck in the Gulf has got underway. But with mines still not totally cleared and a bottleneck created by the past few months, it will be a complex, international operation which will take weeks to complete. Meanwhile, global oil prices have fallen to their lowest level since the war began.
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