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Unloading oil from Yemen's Safer tanker in final stages: UN

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Al Mayadeen
  • 6 Aug 2023 12:09
2 Min Read

The United Nations successfully unloaded 71% of the oil aboard the decaying Safer tanker into a replacement ship.

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  • Safer tanker is seen on Monday, June 12, 2023, off the coast of Yemen. Safer has posed an environmental threat since 2015, as it decayed and threatened to spill its contents of 1.14 million barrels into the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
    Safer tanker is seen off the coast of Yemen  on Monday, June 12, 2023 (AP)

The United Nations announced today that the process of transferring oil from the decaying Safer tanker is in its final stages with more than 70% of the oil being unloaded to the replacement ship. 

"Today, 71% of the Safer tanker's oil (824,179 barrels) has been transported," said Achim Steiner, director of the United Nations Development Programme.

"With every barrel of oil pumped off the Safer tanker, Yemeni fishermen and communities' future is more secure," he added. 

The UN operation to avert an environmental disaster of oil leakage into the sea is in its final stages, the official concluded.

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Today 71% of the #FSOSafer oil (824 179 barrels) is transferred.@UNDP’s commitment is to work 24/7 to protect life and livelihoods. W/every barrel of oil pumped off the #FSOSafer Yemeni fishermen & communities future is more assured.@UN #StopRedSeaSpill is in its final stage. pic.twitter.com/rIpuwf8ckw

— Achim Steiner (@ASteiner) August 5, 2023

Back in mid-July, the Nautica, a UN-owned ship, arrived off the coast Yemen to pump more than a million barrels of oil from the FSO Safer, a Yemeni tanker, to prevent an oil spill. 

The United Nations purchased 1.14 million barrels of oil to avert an environmental disaster. 

The Safer was decaying and maintenance operations were halted in 2015 amid the war on Yemen and obstructions caused by the blockade; the UNDP has warned for years that a catastrophe might "explode at any time."

Read more: UN hands Yemen vessel to transfer oil from FSO Safer tanker

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