India’s return to Iraqi supply widens tanker freight squeeze, Monitor finds
reports’s Tanker Market Monitor says India has resumed Iraqi purchases as Gulf flows recover, but insurance costs and Red Sea transits are keeping freight under pressure.
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Yanbu
Red Sea export hub where shipping sources said crude loadings had been suspended.
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Red Sea
- Region
- Middle East
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Latest reports mentioning Yanbu
Maritime desk
Oil slips to two‑week low as Gulf supply signals ease market fears
Crude slipped to its lowest level in two weeks on Tuesday after reports that Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days and Saudi Arabia would resume exports from Yanbu, easing immediate supply worries.
Maritime desk
Yanbu pipeline attack reshapes crude flows, lifts tanker freight and tightens diesel into Europe
Three weeks after an early‑September attack on a Saudi pipeline near Yanbu, crude trade patterns and freight markets have been altered and diesel supplies into Europe reduced, with knock-on effects for gas and coal prices.
Maritime desk
Report: Perim taken and Petroline hit as freight rates top $1 million a day
Sources indicated on 18 September 2026 that Houthi control of Perim, a pumping‑station attack on the East–West pipeline and freight rates above $1 million a day combined to create acute disruption to crude flows.
Maritime desk
Market jitter after reported suspension of crude loadings at Yanbu pushes oil higher
Reports that crude loadings at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea hub of Yanbu were suspended and that Riyadh had cancelled certain cargoes to Europe coincided with a roughly $3 rise in oil on 16 September 2026.