By Dave Anderson
USA Today reports on two large oil tankers that have been pirated in the Indian Ocean. The first pirating happened on 2/7 and the second occurred the following day on 2/8.
Pirates seized a Greek-flagged supertanker with 25 crewmembers off the coast of Oman on Wednesday, Greece's Merchant Marine Ministry said.
The Irene SL was sailing 200 nautical miles (360 kilometers) east of Oman with a cargo of 266,000 tons of crude oil and a crew of seven Greeks,
On Tuesday, Somali pirates firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades hijacked an Italian-flagged oil tanker in the Indian Ocean. The tanker had been heading from Sudan to Malaysia.
The pirates boarded the MV Savina Caylyn...
The Greek supertanker was bound for the US and it carried about 7% of a typical day's worth of oil consumption in the US. Both ships were in the Indian Ocean as part of their original routing, however there is a decent possibility that target density will significantly increase over the next month as the Suez Canal is currently subject to a targeted labor action:
The employees of the Suez Canal Company have started a sit-in strike. The strike is starting with 6000 employees in the port cities of Suez, Port Said and Ismailia. The strikers plan on sitting down on site, after their shift is over. While their demands are typical of any organized worker, the ongoing revolution with a strike at the Suez Canal ratchets up the travel risk for any planned commercial traffic planning on using the Suez Canal going forward.
Bloomberg is reporting the strikers to be of subsidies of the Suez Company, allowing operations to continue normally during the strike.
Egypt�s Suez Canal shipping traffic is operating normally, Mohamed Motair, director of companies at the Suez Canal Authority, said by telephone today.
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