
周二,无人机袭击了保加利亚附近黑海海域的两艘油轮,这是北约成员国专属经济区内首次发生针对航运的袭击事件。
Drones struck two tankers in the Black Sea near Bulgaria on Tuesday, in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member’s exclusive economic zone.
近期欧洲和中东战事频发,商业航运屡遭攻击,这引发了人们对油轮供应可能成为新的能源瓶颈的担忧:虽然霍尔木兹海峡的航运活动已有所恢复,但代价是油轮面临巨大风险——过去一个月内已有20艘油轮遭袭,这表明目前的恢复态势恐难以持续。
The strikes come amid wars in Europe and the Middle East in which commercial shipping is regularly targeted, raising fears that the supply of endangered tankers could become the next energy bottleneck: Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has largely rebounded, but only at great risk to tankers, 20 of which have been struck in the last month, suggesting recovery could be unsustainable.
全球最大的独立石油贸易商负责人对《金融时报》表示:“这场危机最初是原油供应危机,随后演变为产品供应危机,如今正演变为航运危机。”— 布伦丹·鲁贝里
The Iran conflict began “with a crude crisis… [that] turned into a product crisis,” the head of the world’s largest independent oil trader told the Financial Times. “It is turning into a shipping crisis.”— Brendan Ruberry