2026-05-15
15 分钟Good morning.
The dueling blockades in the Strait of Hormuz continue.
The Wall Street Journal explains the dire situation for some ship operators stuck there.
We have n't really had anything quite like this,
where 20,000 sailors from all across the world are stuck in what has essentially become a bizarre kind of prison.
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It's Friday, May 15th.
I'm Yasmeen Khan, and this is Apple News Today.
The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz continues to worsen,
particularly for the tens of thousands of mariners stranded there.
Two ships were attacked in the strait on Wednesday.
The first boat, which was anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, was seized and taken toward Iran.
The second was sunk near the coast of Oman.
It 's unclear who was responsible for the attacks,
but the strikes only worsened the anxieties of 20,000 seafarers waiting for safe passage out of the strait.
While much of the focus of the conflict has been about soaring energy prices,
the Wall Street Journal spent some time communicating with a handful of sailors
stuck on stranded cargo ships and containers in the strait.