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The Economic Times
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Strait of Hormuz transit will take 'weeks' to resume, largest tanker operator tells FT

Shipowners will not ​resume transit through the Strait of Hormuz for weeks ​until they are confident that the U.S.-Iran deal is "material", the chief executive of Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines told the Financial Times in an interview published ‌on Tuesday.

The ⁠Iran war ⁠that began on February 28 with U.S.-Israeli strikes largely stopped shipping through ​the transit route for around a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied ​natural gas supply, along with products such as aluminium and urea.

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