Two oil tankers were hit in a suspected attack in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday morning, increasing alarmingly oil prices, amid an ongoing tension in the Middle East. The incident comes only a month after a similar incident in which four tankers in the region were struck.
The Bahrain-based US Navy Fifth Fleet said it was assisting the tankers after receiving distress calls following ‘reported attacks’, Reuters reported.
There are no many details as to what happened. The charterer, Taiwan’s CPC,...
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