Major shipowners have begun moving vessels through the Strait of Hormuz since the U.S. and Iran signed an interim agreement ...

More than 11,000 seafarers stuck in the Persian Gulf will begin to exit through the Hormuz Strait in a large-scale evacuation ...

The initiative will enable hundreds of ships with some 11,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf to sail through ​Hormuz, the International Maritime Organization said.

With more than 500 ships still stranded in the Persian Gulf, pressure on the shipowners and sailors is growing by the day.

The ship's purported owners were arrested in January in connection with a massive international drugs bust, leaving its fate and those on board in limbo.