Maersk, the major container shipping company, said Sunday it was halting passage through the Suez Canal and the narrow Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, next to Iran, for "safety" reasons.
The shift comes in reaction to the growing possibility of a military confrontation between the United States and Iran.
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