Oil trading
The new expansions of the port aim to increase the storage capacity by adding four storage tanks with a capacity of 630,000 barrels of crude each, to reach a storage capacity of 5.3 million barrels.
Turkey threatened potentially crippling restrictions on oil trading with Iraqi Kurds on Thursday after they backed independence from Baghdad.
Iraq urged foreign countries to stop importing crude directly from its autonomous Kurdistan region and to restrict oil trading to the central government.
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