Oil Tanker
Egypt condemned the Iranian attacks on Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, all of which host significant American military forces, calling them a “grave escalation.”
The Iranian attacks have prompted Bahrain and Kuwait to activate their air defenses as a fifth day of renewed hostilities further strained a preliminary Washington-Tehran agreement aimed at ending the war.
Bahrain and Kuwait, two Gulf countries which host major American military facilities, announced intercepting hostile projectiles overnight, shortly after the United States hit several Iranian targets in response to an attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Ministry affirmed that the tanker was not destined for any Egyptian port and is not linked to any contracts for the supply or receipt of LNG shipments to Egypt.
The Russian foreign ministry demanded that the United States ensure humane treatment of the Russian crew and their prompt return home, state news agency TASS reported.
The prime minister has mourned a man who sacrificed his life to drive a burning oil tanker away from a gas station in 10th of Ramadan City, Sharkia.
A large oil tanker coming from Portugal run aground in the Suez Canal at 7 pm on Wednesday, and was released into its navigational course five hours later.
According to Egyptian Petroleum, this is the first and largest method of its kind with regard to the construction of storage warehouses in the world, with a warehouse capacity of 175,000 cubic meters, equivalent to more than one million barrels of crude oil, and a warehouse with a diameter of 115 meters and a weight of more than 3000 tons.
A 48 percent discount on the transit fee of giant crude oil tankers was announced by the Suez Canal Authority Monday.
Egypt voiced its total rejection of any sabotage terrorist acts targeting the territorial waters in Saudi Arabia.
British Royal Marines seized an oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday accused of bringing oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, a dramatic step that could escalate confrontation between the West and Iran, Al Arabiya reported.
An oil tanker that caught fire after colliding with a freighter off China's east coast is at risk of exploding, Chinese state media reported Monday.
