Russia’s Novorossiysk Resumed Crude Loadings After Days of Halt
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Drone activity and weather shutting a major Black Sea oil port for days is another reminder that energy and commodity flows now live with persistent disruption risk, not one-off shocks. If your cost structure is exposed to oil or shipping, scenario-test more frequent, shorter outages rather than a single ‘black swan’ event.
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