The Indian government has ordered shipowners, ship managers and recruitment workers not to place its citizens on voyages through the Strait of Hormuz waterway until further notice, a report in The National newspaper said.

This follows the renewed US-Iran conflict around the Strait of Hormuz and the growing safety concerns owing to it.

India is the ⁠world's third-largest supplier of seafarers, with more than 300,000 sailors working across global shipping fleets, according to government data.

“No ⁠deployment of Indian seafarers on vessels undertaking voyages involving ​passage ⁠through the ‌Strait of Hormuz until further orders,” the Directorate General ​of Shipping said in an order issued late on Wednesday.

Two Indian seafarers have been killed in attacks on vessels in the region over the last three days.