Iraq exports 18 million barrels via Gulf

Iraq has so far exported more than 18 million barrels of crude oil from its port on the Gulf under the second phase of the oil-for-food deal with the UN, an Iraqi newspaper said yesterday.

The number of supertankers that arrived in Mina Al Bakr port during the second phase has so far reached 11, which were loaded with 18,080,000 barrels of crude oil, the ruling Ba'ath party newspaper Al Thawra said.