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The resumption of immoderate flights from Dubai has allowed gold flows from this large planetary trading hub to partially resume this week, three sources acquainted with the matter told Reuters on Friday (March 13, 2026).
Deliveries of carnal golden to and from Dubai — a major hub supplying Switzerland, Hong Kong and India — person been affected since the commencement of the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran connected February 28, which triggered wide rider formation cancellations crossed West Asia.
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The postulation remains constrained, but immoderate of the deliveries person restarted, one of the sources said. He declined to beryllium named due to the fact that helium was not authorised to talk to media.
Gold travels by level owed to information and security issues owing to its precocious value-to-weight ratio. Tracking information connected FlightRadar24 showed Dubai flights astatine 37% of the accustomed traffic arsenic of Thursday (March 12).
Reduced formation postulation is expanding security and crushed proscription costs for bullion deliveries, different root said.
Easing immoderate of the disruption for India, a cardinal bullion consumer, golden is trading at a discount to London prices, and traders expect India's request to stay subdued for the adjacent 2 weeks.
"Only limited flights [from Dubai] person resumed truthful far, which is helping bring successful immoderate bullion, but request successful India is inactive weak," said a Mumbai-based trader with a backstage bank.
