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Basra port operations continue after drone strikes ship

Shafaq News 2026/07/16 13:31

Shafaq News- Basra

Maritime traffic at Basra Oil Port in southern Iraq is proceedingnormally after an unidentified drone struck a docked oil tanker on Thursdaywithout exploding or causing damage.

"There is no halt to export operations or work at the port ofBasra, and conditions are proceeding entirely normally," a source at theIraqi Ports Company told Shafaq News.

A security source said the tanker, the Liberian-flagged SupremeProsperity, with a capacity of two million barrels, was berthed at quay No. 1at Basra Oil Port when the drone struck it. The source confirmed no material orhuman losses were recorded.

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