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| UN vessel arrives in Hodeidah to pump oil from Safer ship |
| 2023-07-17 |
| [HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The UN vessel arrived Sunday at Hodeidah Port for pumping out oil from the Safer floating ship; tomorrow it will be officially received in the presence of the concerned authorities. The Minister of Transport, Abdel Wahhab al-Durra, said that the ministry has prepared an integrated plan to secure work. "All necessary help will be available to the UN team, working on pumping out the oil on board the Safer ship," he said. The 376-meter-long Safer floating ship, which has moored 4.8 nautical miles from Ras Issa port in Hodeidah 30 years ago, is a strategic destination for Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i crude oil, flowing through a pumping pipe coming from Sector 18 in the Safer area in Ma’rib, and Sector 9 in Malik area in Shabwah. It was converted from a tanker bearing the name "Isso Japan" that was manufactured in 1976, to a floating tank sold to Yemen in 1986. The tank can hold more than four million barrels of crude oil that is sold to foreign ships. |
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