Russia's Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows
Russia's largest Black Sea oil export terminal has effectively gone offline just days after drone attacks shut down the neighboring Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal, tightening another artery that moves crude onto the global market. The Sheskharis terminal at Novorossiysk hasn’t loaded a crude t
Source: OilPrice.com
―
DW NOTE
The Black Sea is now Russia's only significant export route with Hormuz closed since February. If drones force Novorossiysk offline, Moscow has no alternative for seaborne crude — pipelines to China can't absorb the volume, and the Northern Sea Route is seasonal theatre. Ukraine has turned a regional port into a strategic chokepoint.