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Tanker attacks move inside the Gulf, off Qatar and the UAE
UKMTO reported a tanker hit by several projectiles about 51 nautical miles north of Qatar's Madinat ash Shamal on 7 October, with casualties, and security sources cited by Beinsure add a strike on a supertanker off the UAE and gunfire reported off Fujairah in the following two days. For marine hull and cargo war underwriters, the risk is no longer confined to the approaches to Hormuz, which matters for how additional premiums are priced on voyages to Qatari and UAE terminals.
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Riyadh airport strike damages a parked airliner and halves departures
Business Insurance, citing Reuters, reports that a Houthi strike on Riyadh's airport started a fire that badly damaged a Saudi commercial aircraft at the terminal, and that almost half of departures were cancelled afterwards, with Cirium expecting more cancellations across Saudi airports. Physical damage to an aircraft on the ground is a hull war loss rather than an all-risks one, so the claim will sit with the aviation war market at a time when Middle East renewals are already repricing.
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