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Delivering industry prompts UN to secure vessels after Iran seizure
Merchant ships and seafarers are significantly in danger at sea as attacks intensify in the Middle East and the United Nations should do more to protect supply chains, the industry said in a letter launched on Friday. Tensions have actually soared throughout the Middle East given that the start of Israel's project in Gaza in October, with Israel or its ally the United States clashing repeatedly with Iranian-aligned groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. In a letter sent out on Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the world's leading shipping market associations stated Iran's seizure on April 13 of...