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Trump’s Venezuela Blockade Keeps Dark Fleet on Edge

Opportunistic seizures of vessels elsewhere are becoming a possibility.
A shadow-fleet tanker off the coast of Denmark.Photographer: Carsten Snejbjerg/Bloomberg
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Welcome to our guide to the commodities driving the global economy. Today, oil and shipping reporter Weilun Soon looks at the US blockade of Venezuela and asks whether there could be wider impacts on the trade in sensitive crude.

Once one of the world’s biggest oil exporters, Venezuela now accounts for less than 1% of global supply.