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UN maritime head tells AFP will take 'few weeks' to evacuate all Gulf sailors

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24-06-2026 | 11:54

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UN maritime head tells AFP will take 'few weeks' to evacuate all Gulf sailors

The evacuation of more than 11,000 sailors stranded in the Gulf owing to the U.S.-Iran war will take "a few weeks," the head of the International Maritime Organization told AFP Wednesday.

"It will take us a few weeks before we can actually complete the evacuation" of about 600 ships stuck since the start of the conflict, IMO secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez said in an interview.

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