Navy cannot escort ships through Strait of Hormuz now, likely by March end: US Energy Secy

Washington DC, 12/3: US Energy Secretary Chris ⁠Wright ​on Thursday said that ​the ⁠Navy cannot escort ships through ⁠the ‌Strait of ‌Hormuz ⁠now but it ‌was ‘quite ‌likely’ that it could ‌happen ‌by the end ⁠of March.

The Strait of Hormuz, the arterial waterway carrying a fifth of the world’s oil, remains closed to almost all oil tankers, and Iran has vowed thatit won’t let oil be exported from the Gulf while the war continues. On Thursday, German ⁠shipping companym