A proposal from the UN's shipping agency has called for a safe maritime corridor to free some 20,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf by war in Iran.

IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez called the situation “unacceptable and unsustainable.”

IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez called the situation “unacceptable and unsustainable.”

The war erupted on February 28 when the US and Israel began bombing Iran, prompting it to retaliate with strikes across the region and restrict access to the strait.