WIRE — Shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz was 17 percent of the pre-conflict average in the past seven days, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre. Control of the critical waterway has become the focus of the war recently, with US President Donald Trump saying Thursday that he plans to declare it The post Strait of Hormuz traffic remains at a fraction of pre-war levels appeared first on Egypt Independent.

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