Gulf states seek to calm fears over Hormuz

[alp227]

Oil-rich Gulf states are battling to ease international fears that Iran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz – and cut their main sea gateway to the world – has exposed their lack of alternative crude export routes.

Countries with pipelines that bypass the strait have only limited capacity, while others – notably Qatar, the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas – have few or no alternatives.

The shortage of contingency plans has raised the stakes further in the political battle over Tehran’s warning, which came in response to western threats to impose sanctions on Iranian oil.

Abdullah al-Attiyah, Qatar’s long-serving former energy minister, is one of several Gulf Arab officials to call for calm over a shutdown they – in common with some independent analysts – think will never take place.

full: http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/58d77372-3c52-11e1-8d72-00144feabdc0.html

[itsrobert]

1. OP, can you edit to use this link:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/58d77372-3c52-11e1-8d72-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1jBudhSUh


Your link is just not going though for me. And I suspect for others.

Now, my link is not working. YIKES!

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I tell you worrying about the straights of Harmuz has been like that for years and years. I

had a my Italian Uncle (dead now) I remember him worry about that back in the early 60s. He had a some type of shipping business and he always worried about it being closed down. Even back then. Always something going on in that area.

[alp227]

3. the liveweb part evades the paywall.

clicking directly to FT.com goes to paywall unless from search results.

[itsrobert]

4. Yeah, I know what you are trying to do

But the liveweb link is taking me to the waybackmachine and the link goes dead.

[alp227]

5. other FT.com pages work though

under the liveweb, and the liveweb function intermittently "lacks the files"...