Japanese shippers await details on Hormuz reopening, mine clearance

Lucian Nemoiu

TOKYO, June 15 : Japanese shippers welcomed on Monday the U.S.-Iran peace agreement which will reopen the Strait of Hormuz but are awaiting more details of the deal and clearance of mines before allowing their ships to pass the chokepoint. According to the association, 38 Japanese-linked vessels remain stranded in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran that began on February 28 has largely stopped shipping through the strait, the transit route for roughly a fifth of the world's

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