{"id":6004,"date":"2026-05-11T02:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:14:25","slug":"middle-east-conflict-disrupts-fuel-supply-to-sa-sub-antarctic-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6004","title":{"rendered":"Middle East conflict disrupts fuel supply to SA sub-Antarctic base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A South African vessel headed to a sub-Antarctic island to resupply scientists has been held up by fuel supply disruptions caused by the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0SA Agulhas II, an icebreaking polar supply ship, was unable to leave Cape Town on schedule in April because it couldn\u2019t secure diesel supplies in time, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, which owns the vessel, said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe delay is primarily due to the global scarcity of fuel products linked to ongoing geopolitical developments in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Operations at the station require a specialised polar diesel that doesn\u2019t freeze in extreme cold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A shipment of the fuel finally arrived at the Cape Town refinery earlier this month, the department said. Mixing and testing are underway and it\u2019s expected to be delivered to the vessel within two days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s \u201cno immediate risk\u201d to the Marion Island\u00a0research station\u00a0team, with sufficient fuel for another nine days and food supplies for two months, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Urgent application to stop ship tender \u2018tailored\u2019 for the incumbent<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, it means a narrowing window to replenish stocks at the base \u2013 another example of how the disruption of global energy flows, driven by the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, is affecting even some of the most remote areas on Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #Middle #East #conflict #disrupts #fuel #supply #subAntarctic #base<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South African vessel headed to a sub-Antarctic island to resupply scientists has been held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[4438,421,1180,784,1255,783,11632,424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}