About 115 vessels and 2,500 seafarers have been evacuated from the Strait of Hormuz since Tuesday, the head of the UN maritime body said on Friday.
Arsenio Dominguez, secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), gave the update after the IMO suspended efforts on Thursday to evacuate some 600 ships and 11,000 sailors, following an attack on a vessel in the Gulf of Oman.
Dominguez told an online press conference that "115 [vessels] have evacuated in the last three and a half days, representing around 2,500 seafarers that have now safely left the Strait of Hormuz".
