July 28, 2026: India's state-owned Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd is seeking to import oil via a spot tender and has, for the first time, asked suppliers to avoid using the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, a tender document showed on Monday.
Red Sea traffic has been disrupted off the coast of Yemen since last week by the Tehran-aligned Houthis, who want to blockade Saudi exports, expanding the U.S.-Iran conflict that has already choked oil supply through the Strait of Hormuz
"Crude loading/transit via Red Sea route or SoH to be avoided," MRPL said in a tender document seeking up to 1 million barrels of oil on a delivered basis during August 25 to September 6.
(Source: Economic Times)
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