Eleven Thousand Coming Home: The IMO Does the Authority’s Job
The IMO has launched an operation to evacuate 11,000+ seafarers from the strait, designating two temporary sea lanes (Northern near Iran, Southern through Oman and the UAE) and coordinating Iran, Oman, the UAE, the US and industry. Those are the traffic-management and multi-stakeholder coordination functions a chokepoint authority performs as routine. A global standards body is filling an institution-shaped hole in an emergency, on the very two-bank logic the site has argued for. This post reads the evacuation, and the human throughline from late April.