IMO Chief Warns ‘No Safe Transit’ in Hormuz, Rejects Tolls at U.N. Security Council

The head of the International Maritime Organization used a rare appearance before the United Nations Security Councilon Monday to deliver some of his strongest statements yet that the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz remains fundamentally unresolved, rejecting transit tolls as unlawful, calling for mine clearance, and warning that commercial confidence cannot return while safe navigation remains in doubt.

The remarks by IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez came after several days of increasingly blunt statements from the U.N. shipping chief, culminating in a message that aligned closely with warnings from shipowners and security analysts that the real obstacle to reopening the strait is not political declarations