Sitima yamafuta yochokera ku Emirates idasowa pa radar, ikuyenda kudutsa Strait of Hormuz pafupi. Iran.
Sitima yapamadzi yokhala ndi mbendera yaku Panama 'Riah' nthawi zambiri imanyamula mafuta kuchokera ku Dubai ndi Sharjah kupita ku Fujairah, ulendo wamtunda wochepera ma 200 mailosi omwe amatenga tanker ngati iyi kupitilira tsiku limodzi panyanja.
Komabe, ndikudutsa mu Strait of Hormuz Loweruka usiku, chizindikiro cholondolera sitimayo chinazimitsidwa mwadzidzidzi pakati pausiku, itapatuka panjira yake ndikuloza kugombe la Iran. Malinga ndi kafukufuku wam'madzi, chizindikirocho sichinayatsidwenso kuyambira pamenepo, ndipo sitimayo yasowa.
Ndiye chinachitika ndi chiyani? Pomwe mikangano ya US-Irani ikukulirakulira, ndipo Iran idadzudzula kangapo pama tanki amafuta pafupi ndi mtsinjewu m'miyezi yaposachedwa, chidwi cha Islamic Republic chinatembenukira ku Islamic Republic. Atolankhani aku Israeli adatenga nkhaniyi Lachiwiri, ndikuyiyika ngati nkhani ina yomwe ikupitilira, ndikuwonetsa lumbiro la Mtsogoleri Wapamwamba wa Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Lachiwiri kuti ayankhe ku Britain kulanda sitima yapamadzi yaku Iran pafupi ndi Gibraltar koyambirira kwa mwezi uno.
Mneneri wa kampani yotumiza sitima yomwe ili ndi 'Riah' - Mouj-al-Bahar General Trading yochokera ku Sharjah - adauza TradeWinds kuti sitimayo "idabedwa" ndi akuluakulu aku Iran. CNN inanena kuti anzeru aku US "akukhulupirira mochulukira" ngalawayo idakakamizika kulowa m'madzi aku Iran ndi phiko lankhondo lankhondo la Iran la Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, koma silinaulule komwe limachokera.
Palinso zifukwa zina zomwe zimachititsa kuti sitimayo ingosowa. Webusaiti ya Israeli ya TankerTrackers.com imapanga malipoti a zombo zomwe amakhulupirira kuti zikuyimitsa ma tracker awo kuti zifike pamadoko aku Iran ndikukweza mafuta, kuphwanya zilango zaku America. Tsambali lidanenanso kuti sitima yapamadzi yaku China - 'Sino Energy 1' - yomwe idasowa kumapeto kwa mwezi watha pafupi ndi Iran, isanabwerenso itadzaza ndikupita kwina patatha masiku asanu ndi limodzi. Pakali pano ikudutsa ku Singapore pobwerera ku China.
Komabe, sitima yochokera ku Emirates ndiyokayikitsa kwambiri kuti ingagulitse mafuta ndi Iran, kutengera Emirates' Kusiyana kwandale ndi Tehran komanso mgwirizano wapamtima ndi Saudi Arabia, wachiwiri padziko lonse lapansi wopanga mafuta komanso wogulitsa kunja kwambiri.
