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Shippers shrug off Yemen volcano

Shipments of around 3 million barrels of oil per day through the southern entrance to the Red Sea were unaffected by a volcanic eruption on an island off Yemen, Yemen coastguard and shipping sources said today.

There she blows: lava flows and clouds of smoke and ash reach skyward after a volcano eruption on the island of Jazirt Atta-Ir in the Red Sea
There she blows: lava flows and clouds of smoke and ash reach skyward after a volcano eruption on the island of Jazirt Atta-Ir in the Red Sea
  • Anthea Pitt
Published 1 October 2007, 09:33Updated 28 June 2012, 06:36
Middle East