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Merchant tanker and barge shipments in and out of Europe’s biggest oil hub have been delayed by up to a week as four storage companies work to resume operations after cyber-attacks.  Since the end of last week, storage company Oiltanking and oil trading firm Mabanaft, both owned by Germany’s Marquard & Bahls, have been hit by hackers.  Belgium’s SEA-TANK and Dutch fuel storage firm Evos have also been affected.

The companies have had to suspend some operations, affecting oil flows in the Netherl

With approximately 90% of all finished and bulk products traveling through maritime ports, it is a bit unnerving that a major US port network was breached.  The US Coast Guard recently reported that a suspected foreign government-backed hackers breached a computer network at the Port of Houston, one of the largest ports on the US Gulf Coast.  Early detection of the incident last month resulted in the cyber criminals stopping any disruption of shipping operations. 

The incident at the Port of Hou