Key UAE Port Resumes Oil Loadings After Drone Attack, Fire
Smoke rises from the direction of an energy installation in the Gulf emirate of Fujairah on March 14.
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Oil loading at a key port in the United Arab Emirates resumed after a drone strike and fire on Saturday had forced a halt, reopening the country’s only export route that bypasses the blocked Strait of Hormuz.
Operations at Fujairah — which is vital to keep oil moving to world markets — have restarted, according to people familiar with the situation, who can’t be identified as they’re not authorized to comment. Calls to the port, as well as state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., were not answered. Bloomberg News reported earlier that the blaze had been extinguished.