Key UAE Port Resumes Oil Loadings After Drone Attack, Fire

Bloomberg · last updated March 15, 2026 – 12:13 AM

Oil-loading operations at a key port in the United Arab Emirates resumed after a drone strike and fire on Saturday forced a halt to exports.

Operations at Fujairah — which sits outside the Strait of Hormuz — have restarted, according to people familiar with the situation, who can’t be identified as they are not authorized to comment. Calls to the port, as well as state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., were not answered. Bloomberg News reported earlier that the blaze had been extinguished.

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