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- Iraq reopened the Rabia border crossing with Syria after more than a decade in Nineveh province.
- The move aims to boost overland fuel oil exports and revive trade.
- Omar Al-Waeli, chief of the Border Ports Authority, says the reopening will ease fuel shipments because convoys back up at al-Waleed.
- SOMO has contracted to supply about 650,000 metric tons of fuel oil monthly from April to June via this route.
