The only ships docking at Tobruk's jetties are tankers, and despite the energy flow there are blackouts.
"I'd go, 'Pete, where the hell were you?' He'd say, 'I was out by Buoy 20.' And I'd say, 'Pete, there are ocean liners and tankers that go by there.
But supplies could be disrupted if there were attacks on tankers, oil fields or ports in the Persian Gulf.
As we drove along the dusty roads, Parasuraman, who grew up near Chennai, explained why there were so many tankers: "Indian farmers are good capitalists, and, when a good capitalist has a product that everybody wants, he sells it".
As we drove along the dusty roads, Parasuraman, who grew up near Chennai, explained why there were so many tankers: "Indian farmers are good capitalists, and, when a good capitalist has a product that everybody wants, he sells it.'' These days, water earns more than rice.
"There are oil tankers just sitting off the coast because we don't need more supply.
There are 50,000 tankers and other freighters plying the world's oceans, and it would be hard to make a case for defending oil tankers and not, for example, chemical tankers or tankers carrying liquefied natural gas, Mr. Bowring said.
There are no tankers parked on the terminal as all of the drivers are out working twice as hard replenishing petrol stations that are now being emptied twice as fast.
Allen says that there are no tankers ready to perform that task -- they require modifications.
"There was train tankers as far as you could see, and campers everywhere.
