Energy company follows decisions by five big shipping firms as Houthi militants step up attacks on vessels

Energy company follows decisions by five big shipping firms as Houthi militants step up attacks on vessels

BP has halted all shipments of oil and gas through the Red Sea after a step-up in attacks on cargo ships by Houthi militants in Yemen.

The British oil company said on Tuesday that it had paused shipping in the region indefinitely, citing a “deteriorating security situation” amid tensions in the Middle East.

BP becomes the first oil company to directly halt its own shipping, after five big shipping companies stopped their vessels passing through the waters between Asia and Africa which connect Asia and Europe, with the Suez canal at the tip.

        • qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.eeEnglish
          42·
          2 years ago

          If someone wants to return fire, go for it, but getting NATO to be the new world police force after decades of the US playing that role and fucking it up should give us pause. NATO is there to be a defensive alliance if attacked militarily, not be a mercenary force for Maersk and BP or whoever is getting their cargo attacked.

    • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 years ago

      I’m not paying taxes for NATO to act as world police. It should be a purely defensive force. If you want to get involved then go get your own country involved in it but not mine.

    • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      2 years ago

      Maybe NATO should prevent the United States from giving Saudi Arabia the weapons they need to eradicate the entirety of the population of Yemen. Maybe this is another one of those problems that we could solve by not propping up the fucking bad guy.

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        Agreed. The U.S. shouldn’t be giving one of the richest countries on the planet anything at all.

        But these attacks are at the request of Putin to interfere in supplies going to Ukraine. We should be supporting the Ukraine defense to prevent the spread of Putin’s plague.