Moscow may get new client as Russian cargo sits off UAE coast for 3 days

An oil tanker hauling a cargo of Russian crude has been sitting off the coast of the United Arab Emirates for three days, raising the prospect that the gulf state might become customer for Moscow.
 

Having moored at a jetty serving the country’s biggest refinery, the Tahiti, a Suezmax-class ship able to transport 1 million barrels of oil, has been anchored a short distance from a terminal at the UAE port of Ruwais. It left Murmansk, a port in Russia’s part of the Arctic Sea, in early October.

Russia urgently needs to find new customers for its crude because, from