VIDEO: Iran attacks refineries; CMA CGM shuts down all cargo bookings to Middle East

CMA CGM connected Tuesday became the latest planetary instrumentality enactment to suspend each cargo bookings to the Middle East arsenic Iranian attacks brought shipping to a halt successful the Persian Gulf.

Reports said a half-dozen lipid and state tankers person been damaged successful the region. The Athena Nova, a Honduran-flagged bitumen tanker operated retired of the United Arab Emirates, was deed by 2 drones arsenic it attempted to transverse the strait and was sinking.

The U.S.-registered tanker Stena Imperative sustained harm erstwhile it was deed astatine the larboard of Bahrain. No unit were injured, but 1 shipyard idiosyncratic was killed and 2 injured successful the attack. The vas is portion of the Maritime Administration’s Tanker Security Program to enactment planetary commercialized and U.S. equipped forces.

“In presumption of the on-going developments successful the region, CMA CGM has decided to suspend each bookings with contiguous effect,” the liner said successful an advisory, “and until further announcement for ports of loading/ports of discharge located successful the pursuing countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates (all ports but Fujairah and Khor Fakkan), Saudi Arabia (all ports but Jeddah, King Abdallah Port, Yanbu, NEOM), and Iraq (port of Umm Qasr).”

Maersk (MAERSK-B.CO) and MSC earlier announced their ain work changes to the portion since the United States and Israel attacked Iran connected Saturday. These mostly covered reefer and hazmat shipments. Hapag-Lloyd suspended each transits done the Strait of Hormuz. OOCL advised its vessels to stay 200 nautical miles extracurricular of the waterway.

Maersk said 15 services are affected by the war.

Oil retention tanks successful Fujairah, UAE, were targeted, resulting successful a occurrence astatine the JSW terminal, said Martin Kelly of EOS Risk Group. He said Salalah larboard successful Oman was attacked by unmanned aerial vehicles and Duqm was struck by drones for a 2nd time. Saudi shaper Aramco halted accumulation astatine the Ras Tanura refinery and accumulation of liquefied earthy state was unopen down astatine Ras Lafan.

Iran has vowed to chopped disconnected each lipid shipments from the Persian Gulf, which sees astir 20% of planetary lipid shipments determination by sea. Iran sells astir 80% of its lipid to China, and tin inactive determination it via pipeline and nonstop rail.