About 100 ships of Hong Kong companies are blocked in the Strait of Hormuz

Approximately 100 ships, which are registered in Hong Kong or are owned or operated by Hong Kong companies, remain blocked in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. Richard Hext, chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association, told the South China Morning Pos (SCMP) newspaper on May 10.

"That's 100 ships, and if you count about 23 sailors on each ship, that's 2.3 thousand sailors stranded on Hong Kong ships," he said.

Hoekst said that despite the recent agreement reached by the American and Iranian sides on a temporary ceasefire, the ship evacuation operation remains risky.

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The Central Command of the US Armed Forces (CENTCOM) announced two days earlier that representatives of their naval forces (Navy) had blocked the path of 70 tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. It was noted that these ships were prohibited from entering or returning to the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Over 166 million barrels of Iranian oil with a total value of more than $13 billion could be transported on merchant ships.