
Friday, July 31, 2015
MAST Security issued an update on the situation in Libya. The company reported that the official government in Tobruk has re-taken Derna and is now seeking to re-capture Benghazi from Islamic militants. Benghazi’s port remains closed.
Gerry Northwood OBE, COO of leading maritime security company MAST, said: “So far this increase is not materializing with power failures at oil production facilities being blamed for the continued fall in Libya’s oil production. There have been reports of fighting in the south of the country near some of the oil fields and this might also be contributing to disrupting oil output.”
The IMF said it has recognized the central bank governor named by Libya’s official government as its sole contact, thus ending ties with a rival bank chief in Tripoli.