UN to start operation to offload decaying oil tanker off Yemen
Critical phase of ship-to-ship transfer could be completed by late June, early July, says UN official - Anadolu Ajansı
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Critical phase of ship-to-ship transfer could be completed by late June, early July, says UN official - Anadolu Ajansı
The U.N. says the first technical salvage vessel has arrived near the rusting Safer oil tanker floating off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen
A SMIT salvage team has arrived on site of the decaying FSO Safer in the Red Sea where they will begin the operation to remove over one million barrels of...
The United Nations on Tuesday said it was ready to start salvage work on an oil tanker standing abandoned off Yemen’s coast at the rebel-held port of Hodeida holding 1.1 million barrels of crude. It has been speculated that the tanker is in miserable shape, and can explode or catch fire at any time, thus posing a tremendous risk to the local maritime environment. The tanker has not been serviced since the civil war broke out in Yemen in 2015. As per media reports, the UN has purchased a super-tanker to help pump out oil from the stranded tanker and defuse the ticking time bomb.
The team for the UN-backed salvage effort of the decaying offshore oil storage tanker FSO Safer (406,000 dwt) arrived in Yemen today, May 30, to begin...