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The United Nations\u2019 shipping agency on Thursday said it would pause an evacuation effort \u200bto get hundreds of stranded ships out through the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> after a vessel was attacked \u200bin the Gulf of Oman.
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\u201cI have \u200bbeen informed of an attack today \u2060in the Gulf of Oman on \u200ba vessel which passed through the Strait \u200bof Hormuz,\u201d Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General of the \u200bU.N.\u2019s International Maritime Organization (IMO), said in \u200ba statement.
The vessel \u201cdid not transit\u201d under the evacuation framework set by the body, he said, adding: \u201cI have decided to temporarily pause its implementation \u200cin \u2060order to reconfirm that the necessary safety guarantees continue to be in place for the ships on our evacuation list \u200band all \u200bthose \u2060in the region.\u201d
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre, an organization run by the British navy that helps protect commercial shipping in high-risk areas, said earlier Thursday that a cargo vessel off Oman had been hit by an \u201cunknown projectile,\u201d causing damage to its bridge. No casualties were reported, and the ship was not identified.
Vessels had earlier continued to pass along the United Nations-recommended route<\/a>, but Iran warned Thursday that any ship not following its own approved route, close to the Iranian coastline, \u201cwill be dealt with accordingly.\u201d
The Revolutionary Guard Navy warned that transit otherwise is \u201chighly dangerous and prohibited,\u201d appearing to condemn the route set out by the IMO.
\u201cA few hours ago, without prior notice or coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran, certain authorities announced a new route for vessel traffic in the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d it said. It warned that \u201cany violating vessels will be dealt with accordingly,\u201d without elaborating.
The initial U.S.-Iran agreement<\/a> included reopening the key trade route, but the two sides have been engaged in public disputes over the terms of that deal.
The initial 60-day agreement brought significant relief to energy markets, the shipping industry and the thousands of sailors stranded in the Persian Gulf. However, it left key questions unresolved, including how traffic would be managed and how mines purportedly laid by Iran would be cleared.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, touring Gulf nations in an effort to reassure U.S. allies over the deal, said Thursday the waters of the Strait of Hormuz \u201cdo not belong to any nation state.\u201d
Traffic has also remained far below prewar levels, even as some vessels continued to cross.
A Liberian-flagged vessel \u2014 perhaps aptly named the Stoic Warrior \u2014 attempted its exit out of the Persian Gulf early Thursday, moving westward along the coastline of the United Arab Emirates. It then ventured close to Oman\u2019s coast and continued to bend along Oman\u2019s Musandam Peninsula, avoiding Iranian waters.
Another vessel, the British-flagged World Prize, also appeared to be transiting through the Omani route Thursday morning, an NBC News review of MarineTraffic data showed.
Like Stoic Warrior and World Prize, two dozen ships have taken the Omani route since 5 a.m. ET Thursday, with some still sailing along that route. But at least three ships exiting the Persian Gulf through that route turned back Thursday.
Hapag Lloyd, one of the world\u2019s largest shipping companies, confirmed Thursday that it no longer has any ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz. A spokesperson said in a statement to NBC News that its vessels have all \u201csince safely left the Gulf\u201d after \u201ccareful assessment of the security situation and in close coordination with the relevant authorities, security partners and our teams on board and ashore.\u201d
The uncertainty means that many ship owners are still erring on the side of caution, so movement through the strait is more of a trickle than a rush. \u201dMost of what we\u2019ve seen so far is inventories being shipped out, not much if any of fresh loadings in the Gulf, barring Iranians,\u201d Halvor Ellefsen, a director at Fearnleys Shipbrokers, told NBC News.
Nonetheless, the slow stream of ships is helping restore confidence in the waterway, with energy prices easing and several airlines reducing fuel surcharges.
About 35 million barrels of oil have left the region through the strait since the agreement was signed, according to a new analysis from marine tracking firm Kpler. More than 70 ships had passed through the waterway since Wednesday, according to Kpler, though far below the more than 130 ships daily before the war.
The international benchmark price, Brent crude, has erased its wartime gains and was trading around $72 per barrel Thursday, significantly lower than the $126 per barrel peak it reached in April.
Still, it will take weeks \u201cbefore we see production coming back on track in earnest in the Gulf,\u201d Ellefsen said.
\u201cTankers appear to be racing to exploit a 60-day window to move Middle East Gulf crude before the Hormuz reopening expires,\u201d Lloyd\u2019s List Intelligence said in a briefing Thursday.
The International Maritime Organization announced a plan earlier this week to evacuate around 11,000 seafarers from the region, saying it had secured \u201cnecessary safety guarantees.\u201d As of Thursday morning, data from the U.N. shipping agency showed some 57 ships carrying an estimated 1,100 seafarers had passed through the strait under the plan.
Oman issued guidelines Wednesday<\/a> for vessels sailing along its coastline, listing wait times and transit times through several sections of the route as part of its coordination with the U.N. agency.
But the Iranian navy\u2019s warning against using that route has further complicated matters.
Iran had been charging passage tolls for weeks along the route that it recommends through its waters, despite U.S. insistence that passage must remain free. Trump said Tehran had told the U.S. in the wake of last week\u2019s deal that no tolls were being sought. Rubio said Thursday, in Bahrain, that \u201cno country on earth has a right to charge for the use of international waterways.\u201d
A senior United Arab Emirates diplomat, Anwar Gargash, warned Thursday that \u201cnew geopolitical realities cannot be imposed on the Gulf Arab states as a result of treacherous aggression.\u201d
\u201cImposing a fait accompli born of aggression does not establish stability, but rather sows the seeds of future discord and conflict. This is precisely what applies to the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d he said on X<\/a>.
Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter\/producer for NBC News.
Matthew Mulligan is a senior reporter\u00a0for the NBC News Social Newsgathering team based in London.
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