Seafarers trapped Middle East war have flooded maritime welfare helplines with distress calls — with crew members aboard vessels stranded in Gulf anchorages sheltering in Strait of Hormuz approaches and attempting dangerous transits through active war zones reporting conditions that maritime welfare organisations describe as among the most severe humanitarian situations the global seafaring community has faced since the height of Somali piracy more than a decade ago. Seafarers trapped Middle East war crisis has produced a specific and deeply human dimension to the Iran war’s maritime consequences that the…
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