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Mines will hold back Strait of Hormuz shipping for months, CEO warns

NYK’s Takaya Soga says safe routes are ‘extremely limited’, restricting traffic to half prewar levels

!A woman and two girls sit by the waterfront at sunset, with ships and boats anchored behind them.

*People in Muscat, Oman. The shipping industry fears Tehran has laid mines in the nearby Strait of Hormuz’s central passage

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