The Tanker Named Karachi Got Through. Its Workers Did Not.

Pakistan Secured Passage for Cargo. The Seafarers Were a Different Matter.

On March 16, a Pakistani-flagged Aframax tanker named Karachi became one of the first non-Iranian cargo vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz while broadcasting its location, carrying crude from Abu Dhabi through a waterway where Iranian projectiles had struck 16 vessels in the preceding fortnight. The tanker named after Pakistan’s port city got throu…