Operations resume at Iraqi port, oil refinery after protesters leave – sources

Operations resume at Iraqi port, oil refinery after protesters leave - sources
Operations resume at Iraqi port, oil refinery after protesters leave - sources

Operations resumed at aport and an oil refinery in southern Iraq on Thursday after protesters leftboth areas, port officials, security and oil sources said.

They did not immediatelysay why the protesters had left.

Anti-governmentdemonstrators had blocked roads at Umm Qasr commodities port, haltingoperations for more than a week. On Wednesday, they stopped fuel tankersentering or leaving Nassiriya oil refinery, causing shortages in the south.

The blocking of Umm Qasr,which receives imports of grain, vegetable oils and sugar shipments that feed acountry largely dependent on imported food, has cost the country more than $6billion, the government said on Wednesday.

All terminals wereoperating normally in the early hours of Thursday, said Safa al-Hussein,manager of Iraq's state-owned ports company.

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