Shipping workers all at sea

远洋航船工皆在海天之间

World Business Report

2026-03-13

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As the Strait of Hormuz remains shut what is being done to keep seafarers safe?
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  • Why is US President Donald Trump waiving a century-old shipping law?

  • It's World Business Express from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Leanna Byrne.

  • We hear what the situation is like for seafarers stuck on ships in the Gulf and how Indonesia is seeing the energy crisis as an opportunity.

  • So, to tackle rising oil prices,

  • the Trump administration is preparing to suspend a century-old shipping law.

  • The move would temporarily allow foreign tankers to move fuel between US ports,

  • boosting supplies to refineries on the US East Coast.

  • It comes as Iran's new Supreme Leader vows to keep blocking the Strait of Hormuz in his first statement released by the regime.

  • Emma Wallace, chief investment strategist at Hargreeves Landstand.

  • Emma, any reaction to the oil price on this?

  • Not much.

  • And it comes less than a day after the International Energy Agency agreed to discharge 400 million barrels of emergency oil reserves.