Shisaku asks: “The Indian Ocean Mission - who benefits?”
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on October 2nd, 2007
According to MTC at Shisaku, a really great blog:
Very kind reader ERP forwards the following interesting breakdown of the countries that have taken advantage of the MSDF’s services in the Indian Ocean in Heisei Fiscal Year 19:
By volume of fuel:
France 48 %
U.S.A. 30%
Pakistan 13 %
U.K. 5 %
Germany 4%
By number of refuelings:
Pakistan 11
France 9
U.K. 5
U.S.A. 5
Germany 4
The information can be found on page 11 (Slide 10) of a Ministry of Defense presentation (pdf) on the refueling effort.
I had no idea any of this was the case. I completely thought America was the top recipient. Duh …
Thank you ERP and MTC!
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Interesting statistics and as I’m curious why no newspaper seems to have picked this up. Thanks for posting it.
So, Japanese tax payers are giving away oil for free to France? That really seems odd.