Strait of Hormuz toll would set 'dangerous precedent,' UN shipping agency warns

The United Nations’ shipping bureau warned Thursday that imposing a toll connected ships passing done the Strait of Hormuz would "set a unsafe precedent." 

The remark comes aft President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that determination whitethorn beryllium a U.S.-Iranian toll strategy coming for ships that question done the cardinal waterway. Trump told ABC News, "We’re thinking of doing it arsenic a associated venture," and, "It’s a mode of securing it — besides securing it from tons of different people." 

"There is nary planetary statement wherever tolls tin beryllium introduced for transiting planetary straits. Any specified toll volition acceptable a unsafe precedent," a ‌spokesperson ⁠for the U.N.'s International Maritime Organization told Reuters connected Thursday. 

The Strait of Hormuz, which lies betwixt Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, is 1 of the world’s astir captious vigor choke points, carrying roughly 20 million barrels of lipid a time on with astir one-fifth of planetary liquefied earthy gas.

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A vessel is seen passing done the Strait of Hormuz during a two-week impermanent ceasefire betwixt the United States and Iran connected April 8, 2026. (Shady Alassar/Anadolu/Getty Images)

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis besides warned connected Wednesday that a reported Iranian program to complaint ships to walk done the Strait of Hormuz would beryllium "completely unacceptable." 

"I don’t deliberation that the planetary assemblage would beryllium acceptable to judge Iran mounting up a toll booth for each vessel that crosses the strait," Mitsotakis, representing the world's starring shipping power, told CNN. 

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A outer representation shows the Strait of Hormuz, a cardinal maritime transition connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, captious for planetary vigor supply. (Amanda Macias/Fox News Digital)

"This statement cannot, I repeat, cannot see a benignant of a interest that ships volition person to wage each clip they transverse the strait," helium continued. "This was not the lawsuit earlier the warfare started and it cannot beryllium the lawsuit aft the warfare finishes." 

The Trump medication had reached a ceasefire woody with Iran connected Tuesday.

The Callisto tanker sits anchored arsenic the postulation is down successful the Strait of Hormuz, amid the U.S.-Israeli struggle with Iran, successful Muscat, Oman, March 10, 2026. (Benoit Tessier / Reuters)

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 "The United States of America volition beryllium helping with the postulation buildup successful the Strait of Hormuz. There volition beryllium tons of affirmative action! Big money volition beryllium made. Iran tin commencement the reconstruction process," Trump wrote connected Truth Social connected Wednesday morning. "We’ll be loading up with supplies of each kinds, and conscionable ‘hangin’ around’ in bid to make definite that everything goes well. I consciousness assured that it will." 

Fox News Digital’s Amanda Macias and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.