West Asia crude exports top pre-war levels despite tanker attacks
Crude exports from West Asia exceeded pre-war levels on four of the seven days in the final week of September, provisional data from ship-tracking firm Kpler showed. On September 24 and from September 27 to 29, shipments rose to between 19.5 million and 22.5 million barrels per day, against a pre-war average of 18 million bpd. Shipping intelligence firm Marisks reported at least seven attacks on vessels in and around the Strait of Hormuz.