No internationally operated merchant ships are transiting Strait of Hormuz – CBS
No large, internationally owned and operated merchant vessels are currently transiting the Strait of Hormuz despite the waterway remaining physically open, the head of a maritime risk management company told CBS News on Wednesday.
“There’s nothing physically obstructing the navigation of any vessel willing to transit the strait, and there are vessels that trade locally and are entirely unaffected by everything that’s going on; however, if we’re talking about large ocean-going, internationally-owned and operated merchant vessels, nothing is going through,” Dimitris Maniatis, CEO of Greek maritime risk management company Marisks, told CBS.
The US military’s Central Command said on Tuesday that “despite Iranian aggression, the Strait of Hormuz remains open for commercial vessel traffic,” while acknowledging more than 30 Iranian attacks on commercial vessels that it said had endangered mariners and undermined freedom of navigation.