Evacuation of sailors stuck in Gulf likely to take weeks

According to France 24, the International Maritime Organisation has begun evacuating approximately eleven thousand commercial sailors stuck in the Gulf—a complex operation likely to take weeks. The effort faces two major hurdles: mines in the region haven't been fully cleared, and a backlog of shipping disruptions has compounded the bottleneck. The multinational evacuation will be painstaking and methodical. On a related note, global oil prices have fallen to their lowest levels since the conflict started.

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