The Norwegian oil trader Haltbakk Bunkers announced on 2 March that it would stop supplying fuel to the American armed forces in Norway and to American ships docked in Norwegian ports. Gunnar Gran, the owner of the company, justified this step with the behaviour of the American president towards the president of Ukraine. Although the company is suffering losses as a result, and is neither the largest nor the only supplier in Norway, it is a question of morality. Nor do they fulfil orders from Russian hands. After all, Haltbakk Bunkers had refuelled the aircraft carrier \"USS Gerald R. Ford\" during its first visit to Norway and supplied around 3 million litres of fuel to US units in 2024. Defence Minister Tore Sandvik immediately stated that this personal stance had nothing to do with the Norwegian government. Norway remains in close and trusting cooperation with the USA and supplies American units on land and at sea without restriction. The company's post \"No fuel for Americans!\" disappeared from the platforms after a short time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Der norwegische \u00d6lh\u00e4ndler Haltbakk Bunkers hatte am 2. M\u00e4rz angek\u00fcndigt, die Kraftstoffversorgung der amerikanischen Streitkr\u00e4fte in Norwegen und der amerikanischen Schiffe, die in norwegischen H\u00e4fen anlegen, einzustellen. Gunnar Gran, der Inhaber des Unternehmens, begr\u00fcndete diesen Schritt mit dem Verhalten des amerikanischen Pr\u00e4sidenten gegen\u00fcber dem Pr\u00e4sidenten der Ukraine. Man erleide dadurch zwar Einbu\u00dfen, und man sei […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[9465,238,9466,9467,1384,2392,394,1460],"class_list":["post-48435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-haltbakk-bunkers","tag-norwegen","tag-norwegische-regierung","tag-treibstoffversorgung","tag-ukraine","tag-us-militaer","tag-us-navy","tag-uss-gerald-r-ford"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49147,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48435\/revisions\/49147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}