Two private security firms said sailors feared they found a limpet mine on the MT Pola, a Liberian-flagged tanker that was receiving assistance Thursday in the Gulf off Basra. The Pola, along with another tanker, serves as floating fuel oil storage of Iraq’s State Organization of Marketing of Oil, said Sudharsan Sarathy, a senior oil analyst at the data-analysis firm Refinitiv. Smaller vessels carry the fuel oil to the ship, which then conducts ship-to-ship transfers in the Arabian Gulf to clients. The owners of the Nordic Freedom, the company Nordic American Tankers, could not be immediately reached. The attack was the latest in a series of recent attacks targeting trucks transporting logistical support to coalition bases in Iraq.

Source: Ethiopian News December 31, 2020 16:07 UTC