DUBAI- A recent attack by the Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement on a Saudi oil tanker in the Bab Al Mandeb strait has had only a limited impact on Kuwait exports, the state news agency KUNA reported on Thursday.
Sheikh Talal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, chief executive of the state-owned Kuwait Oil Tanker Company, said 90 percent of Kuwaiti oil shipments were routed to Asia and did not pass throgh the Bab Al Mandeb strait on the Red Sea.
Around 10 percent of Kuwait's oil shipments, mainly refined oil products, pass through the strait, he added.
Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it was suspending oil shipments through the strait after Yemen's Iran-aligned rebels attacked two tankers in the waterway.
(Reporting by Hadeel Al Sayegh; Editing by Kevin Liffey) ((Hadeel.AlSayegh@thomsonreuters.com; +971566883310;))
