THE PORT of New Orleans last week handled its first commercial container vessel – the Lykes Flyer - since Hurricane Katrina hit. At the time of writing, the Mississippi River was open to ships with a draught of 41 feet during daylight hours only.
Trickle traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, hugging the Iranian coastline at Qeshm and the islands of Hormuz and Larak, has brought no significant change to the closed-off waterway.Source: Research Gate
