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Cruise Ships Seized Brief Hormuz Reopening to Flee Persian Gulf
The cruise ships Aroya Manara and MSC Euribia anchored at the port of Dubai on March 4.
Photographer: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty ImagesSeveral cruise ships trapped in the Persian Gulf as a result of the Iran war raced to exit through the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, taking advantage of a brief reopening of the passageway.
Travel operator TUI Cruises said on Sunday that two of its vessels — Mein Schiff 4 and Mein Schiff 5 — had “successfully passed” the strait by early afternoon.