Moller-Maersk alters its route through the Strait of Hormuz

The world’s largest shipping firm, A.P. Moller-Maersk, has changed the route of  its ships that were sailing through the world’s busiest transit lane, the Strait  of Hormuz.

This applies for seaborne oil shipments, with Moller-Maersk citing safety concerns amid a rapid series of escalations between the U.S. and Iran.

The decision was taken as this week an Iranian surface-to-air missile shot down a U.S. military drone in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz.

Soren Toft, the chief operating officer of A.P. Moller-Maersk, told  NBC News that the company has multiple assets, ships and people, crossing the Strait of Hormuz every day, every week. So far, it has not stopped serving the area but changed the route the ships use.

Attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week and on four tankers off the United Arab Emirates in mid-May, both near the Strait of Hormuz, has ratcheted up concern about the prospect of a military confrontation.

Via NBC News