Red Sea, Suez Canal, and Attacks on Marine Traffic

While it is true that VLCCs cannot fit through the Suez Canal, many partially discharge into the SUMED Pipeline and top-off on the other side
🧵1/x The Suez-Mediterranean pipeline, known as Sumed, has the capacity of 2.5 million barrels of oil per day. The pipeline was financed by a consortium of Arab countries, primarily Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Egypt and completed in 1977
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