Qatari LNG Cargo Heads Through Red Sea to Europe in Rare Suez Run

A Qatari LNG cargo is traveling north in the Red Sea to deliver gas to Europe via the Suez Canal in a rare shipment on the shortest but dangerous route to Europe amid the Houthi threats to tankers in the southern Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The tanker loaded LNG from Qatar in August and is now moving north in the Red Sea with Poland as its destination, Bloomberg reported on Monday, quoting vessel-tracking data it had compiled. Qatar’s state firm QatarEnergy has a term contract with Polish energy group Orlen, as well as with other…