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The United Arab Emirates has closed beaches in Umm Al Quwain and launched clean-up operations after an oil spill traced to a tanker struck by a projectile earlier in October.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all commercial shipping as tanker attacks surge to their highest level since the US-Israel war on Iran began.
The French Navy boarded the sanctioned Russia-linked tanker DF Peak on the high seas more than 450 nautical miles south of Réunion Island over suspicions of false flagging and illicit fuel transport.
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority has begun dredging works in Burrard Inlet’s Second Narrows channel to let Aframax tankers calling at the Trans Mountain terminal load closer to full capacity.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Navy escorts protecting oil tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz will continue indefinitely as crude flows recover to roughly two-thirds of pre-conflict levels.
US Central Command says it permanently disabled two Iranian crude carriers and destroyed a third after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and destroyer.
