IMO Proposes Creating Safe Sea Corridor to Evacuate Ships Stranded in Persian Gulf

NAMPA / Sputnik

2026-03-18

MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti) - The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council proposed on Wednesday creating a safe sea corridor to evacuate merchant ships stranded in the Gulf amid escalating tensions in the region. Earlier in the day, IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said at an IMO extraordinarily session on the situation in the Middle East that about 20,000 sailors were on ships stranded in the Gulf. The proposal calls for an u......

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