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oil-producing platforms, eight water-injection barrels of crude, thwarted UAE attempts to with “armed guards on board’ AIS status.
platforms and a central processing complex block her voyage to China, was reported by It’s impossible for an outsider to
along with subsea pipelines and cables. local outlet Adennews.net. understand who is who and standing for what
UPSTREAM The ship left Al Dhabba Ash Shihr offshore against whom, in Middle East. Listening to
oil terminal, Mukalla, Yemen, Gulf of Aden, insiders and “experts” doesn’t help, because
ULCC reportedly harassed in the morning Oct 4, reportedly bound each has his own story. So any attempt to
for China. According to local source, UAE
explain ANDROMEDA incident, if there was
by UAE tried to block tanker with dinghies, but safe one, is a wild guess and crystal gazing.
passage was provided by international escort,
MARITIME BULLETIN
A strange story of how ULCC whatever it means. Port of destination not
ANDROMEDA, loaded with some 2 mil identified, tanker is sailing in SE direction,
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