Stormy weather: off Mexico
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Heavy weather shuts Mexican oil ports
Mexico closed all its main oil exporting ports yesterday due to bad weather, the transport ministry said.
The Gulf of Mexico ports of Dos Bocas, Cayo Arcas and Coatzacoalcos, which ship around 80% of Mexico's daily oil exports, were shut. The Pacific port of Salina Cruz was also closed, Reuters reported.
Mexico ships an average of 1.7 million barrels per day in 2007.
Mexico's exports have been repeatedly disrupted in recent months by bad weather that has halted shipments for days at a time and, in some cases, triggered the evacuation of oil rig workers.