Iraq: Iraq Plans to Acquire 'Large Fleet' of Oil Tankers

Feb 17, 2017 | Maher Chmaytelli and Adrian Croft, Reuters
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Iraq plans to acquire a "large fleet" of oil tankers to transport the OPEC nation's crude to global markets, Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said in a statement on Friday. The nation's tanker fleet was largely destroyed during the U.S.-led offensive to dislodge Iraq from Kuwait in 1991, according to the state-run Iraqi Oil Tankers Company's website. The company owned as many as 24 tankers in the 1980s.