Ormuz: ‘a few weeks’ needed to evacuate the sailors, says the head of the UN maritime agency to AFP

The evacuation of the 11,000 sailors stuck in the Gulf region due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz should take ‘a few weeks,’ estimated on Wednesday the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Arsenio Dominguez, in an interview with AFP.

‘It will still take us a few weeks before we can really finish evacuating’ all the sailors, he said about the evacuation operation, announced Tuesday by this UN agency responsible for maritime safety, which is supposed to allow the 600 ships that have been immobilized since the start of the war to finally leave the area.