US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the Gulf for talks with regional leaders, as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz begins to recover following the US-Iran memorandum of understanding signed in recent days.
The strait was effectively shut down during four months of conflict, leaving thousands of seafarers stranded on vessels across the waterway.
The United Nations maritime agency has now announced plans to evacuate more than eleven thousand crew members still trapped in the region.
Fiona Nicole Mee has the story from Dubai.
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