Sailors Are Reportedly Being Offered $25,000 For Gulf Oil Runs as Hormuz Strait Continues to be a Battle Zone

Source: International Business Times

The unusually large payments are being offered to crew members willing to make dangerous tanker voyages through the waterway. Pixabay Some sailors are being offered as much as $25,000 for individual trips through the Strait of Hormuz as oil producers try to keep crude moving out of the Persian Gulf despite continuing attacks on commercial shipping, according to a new report. The unusually large payments are being offered to crew members willing to make dangerous tanker voyages through the waterway, according to The Wall Street Journal.