Giant oil tankers find new business after Houthi ship attacksSome of the world’s biggest oil-hauling supertankers are instead loading up vast volumes of diesel in the latest sign of how attacks by Yemen’s Houthis are upending global shipping.
At least one so-called very large crude carrier, or VLCC, capable of hauling two million barrels of oil is already sailing from the Middle East to Europe, while another is in the process of loading, according to Kpler and ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.