{"id":149692,"date":"2026-04-15T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149692"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:00:27","slug":"hormuz-blockade-shipping-industry-slams-transit-fees-as-20000-seafarers-still-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149692","title":{"rendered":"Hormuz blockade: shipping industry slams transit fees as 20,000 seafarers still stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has denounced proposed tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as a worrisome step in the wrong direction, while noting that several thousand stranded seafarers remain the international shipping community\u2019s foremost concern.<br \/>\n\u201cFreedom of navigation has to be one of the pillars of free trade, and it would be a retrograde step \u2013 a really bad step,\u201d said John Denholm, chair designate of the ICS, referring to the idea of charging vessels to transit the oil&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3350067\/hormuz-blockade-shipping-industry-slams-transit-fees-20000-seafarers-still-stranded?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has denounced proposed tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as a worrisome step in the wrong direction, while&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}