Somewhere in the Persian Gulf right now, roughly 20,000 seafarers are waiting. They’ve been waiting for weeks, stranded on vessels that can’t move, in a waterway that the world depends on but that one ...

'Project Freedom (The Movement of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz) will be paused for a short period of time', U.S. President Donald Trump said. Image by Zuberka via iStock (Update) May 6, 2026, 10 ...