A new scheme by the International Maritime Organisation to evacuate some 11,000 commercial sailors stuck in the Gulf has got underway. But with mines still not totally cleared and a bottleneck created by the past few months, it will be a complex, international operation which will take weeks to complete. Meanwhile, global oil prices have fallen to their lowest level since the war began.
Evacuation of sailors stuck in Gulf likely to take weeks
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