Iraq turns to trucks to export oil in overland Syrian route revival

BASRA, Iraq: Outside a depot near Basra, hundreds of tanker trucks queue to load Iraqi crude oil bound for the Syrian port of Baniyas via an overland desert route which had been largely unused for decades. Iraq, OPEC’s second-largest producer, has been working to find alternative export routes for its oil since the Strait of Hormuz, its usual outlet, was…