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The war on merchant shipping in the Middle East has taken a worrying geographical turn, with casualties reported aboard a tanker attacked off Qatar, hundreds of miles west of the Strait of Hormuz, while a containership has also come under fire in the Red Sea. The Antigua and Barbuda-flagged oil/chemical tanker Acers (IMO: 9301902) was …
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The war on merchant shipping in the Middle East has taken a worrying geographical turn, with casualties reported aboard a tanker attacked off Qatar, hundreds of miles west of the Strait of Hormuz, while a containership has also come under fire in the Red Sea. The Antigua and Barbuda-flagged oil/chemical tanker Acers (IMO: 9301902) was …[1]
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