Hyderabad, June 15 -- US President Donald Trump said on Monday, June 15, that ships carrying oil were beginning to move out of the Strait of Hormuz, signalling what he described as a return to safer maritime transit through one of the world's most strategically important waterways.

In a post on his social media platform, Trump said many vessels loaded with oil had resumed their journeys through the strait and were travelling along a southern route that he characterised as "totally safe, secure, and pristine".

"Ships are starting to move, many loaded up with Oil, out of the Strait of Hormuz," Trump wrote. "They are going along the Southern 'Highway,' which is totally safe, secure, and pristine."

Trump says oil tankers are moving through...