Piracy, collisions, missiles: tankers in troubled waters
Geopolitical tension following explosions on tankers have caused oil prices to spike (AFP Photo/-)/ New York (AFP) - Tankers like those apparently attacked Thursday in the Gulf of Oman operate through increasingly treacherous waters, facing mounting dangers from piracy and collision as well as geopolitical hazards. Around 60 million barrels of petroleum product move each day on the seas globally, according to the US Energy Information Administration. And around a third of this volume passes through the Straits of Hormuz, a critical shipping ...
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