Shipowner Offers Seafarers Six Months' Pay to Sail Through Strait of Hormuz

By Charles Gorrivan, Alex Longley and Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) —

One shipowner is attempting to coax crews to sail through the Strait of Hormuz by offering them an extra six months pay if they’re willing to cross the vital oil channel, offering seafarers a stark choice between large financial rewards and the risk of death.

Sinokor Group, the world’s largest owner of supertankers, distributed such an offer to its seafarers for a round trip to pick up oil from either Saudi Arabia or Iraq and unload it in the Gulf of Oman. The firm offered six months extra salary if they make