IMO Urges Shippers Not to Risk Strait of Hormuz Transits

Navigation through the Strait of Hormuz remains too dangerous for ship owners and operators to brave the chokepoint, the head of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) said on Wednesday.

“I will maintain the message of upholding international law, for countries to do the same thing, and for companies — at this stage, particularly with the volatility — not to take risk to transit through the Strait of Hormuz,” IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez told Bloomberg Radio.