Luke Vargas

These seafarers can't dock at a nearby port.

I mean, presumably they're at risk when they're at anchor just as much as they are in port.

I know you're leading efforts to try and create a safe corridor through the strait.

What might that look like?

Does an outcome of this war need to be a new arrangement for the Strait of Hormuz going forward?

Though a potential legacy, if this doesn't end well, or even if it even were to end today, I guess, is that this demonstrates how effective it is to use commercial shipping as a pawn in geopolitical conflict.

We're here at the Wall Street Journal.

A lot of global trade, the price of commodities is often a reason things get done, right?

It almost seems like every day we look at a new industry and see how it's affected by the continued closure of the straight helium at the end of last week.

Is there more to come if this keeps playing out?

We've been hearing in particular some countries in Southeast Asia really needing some of the products coming out of the Persian Gulf to keep their economies ticking.

Would the IMO be involved in, I don't know, helping redirect other global maritime traffic to countries in need if some of the concerns you're talking about worsen?

Arsenio Dominguez is the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization.

Secretary General, thank you so much for being with us on What's News.

Thank you.

And it's the end of an era for the world's second biggest miner, Rio Tinto, which says that it's dug up its last diamond.

After producing more than 150 million carats of diamonds at its Diavik mine in Canada's Northwest Territories, journal reporter Rhiannon Hoyle says that the company dug up everything that it could profitably mine there.

and is shifting its focus to commodities like copper, which it expects to drive future growth.

American jeweler Harry Winston formerly held a stake in the Diavik mine, which primarily produced white gems and, on occasion, rare yellow diamonds.

And that's it for What's News for this Thursday morning.