Libya Oil Growth Crimped as Gunmen Block Eastern Port Hariga
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Hariga, the biggest oil terminal in east Libya run by the central government, can’t export because gunmen nearby pose a threat to tankers, the port’s inspection and measurement coordinator said. Curbs on the sales helped lift crude prices to a six-month high last year.
“There’s an armed group in boats facing the port, and some men with guns are on the coast itself,” Abdel-Wahab Salem Mohammed said in a phone interview from the facility on Jan. 20. “One person with a rocket propelled grenade can close the entire thing.”