But the vessels, one from Asia and the other from Europe, will eliminate scheduled port calls at Bahrain and Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, the flow of businessmen increases to the Hotel Oberoi in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, where the Kuwait emergency recovery agency has its offices.
And Dammam is the closest thing to America in the Mideast; people shop at Safeway, drive Chevrolets, buy insurance from Arabian Cigna and go to Baskin-Robbins for ice cream.
"We are calm, because we trust in God," said Atiya al-Anzi, a shopkeeper in Dammam. "We will be afflicted only if God wills it this way.
His fifth well, the following year, brought in the Dammam field.
Until greater production and conservation redress the situation, Bahrain would have to pump 30 million gallons a day from the Dammam aquifer to meet demand.
The eastern Saudi ports and Jubail, 150 miles south of the Kuwaiti border, and Dammam, further south, are the main unloading centers for the U.S. sealift.