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Shipping disruptions raise risks across key Middle East oil routes

Attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab strait are disrupting oil tanker passage through the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.

Shipping risks have increased along two crucial Middle East waterways for oil flows, as attacks on vessels disrupt tanker traffic, according to the New York Times Business.

The outlet said the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab strait are seeing interference that affects passage of oil tankers moving through the Persian Gulf and onward across the Red Sea.

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