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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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How Europe is keeping planes flying despite jet fuel risks

London: Europe has imported jet fuel from the U.S. and Asia, raised its refiners' output ​and drawn on stocks to keep planes flying - and yet it remains the region most exposed as renewed Middle Eastern tension raises the risk of further supply disruption.

Britain, France and Germany are particularly vulnerable in a continent where decades of refinery closures left it more reliant than most on Middle Eastern shipments via the Strait of Hormuz.

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