Tag: Yemen

IMO Secretary-General urges States to support UN coordinated plan to transfer oil from degrading floating storage unit off Yemen.

IMO Secretary-General, Kitack Lim, addressed the threat of the major oil spill from the FSO SAFER – the aging supertanker moored of Yemen’s Red Sea Coast that could break apart or explode at any time.

The United Nations urges to raise $80M in order to prevent an oil tanker off the west coast of Yemen exploding and causing an environmental disaster.

The Houthi movement that controls most of northern Yemen has released the crew of the United Arab Emirates cargo ship Rwabee that was seized on January 3.

Critical funding and timely action are needed to prevent the FSO Safer anchored close to Yemen’s coastline from sparking a major oil spill, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the country, David Gressly said.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) set out to strengthen Yemen's oil spill response capability by supporting contingency planning workshops.

Houthis agreed with the United Nations over deal regarding the FSO Safer threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off Yemen's coast.

As part of United Nations-coordinated efforts to address the risk of an oil spill from the FSO SAFER moored off the coast of Yemen, IMO and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Yemen are supporting contingency planning workshops to strengthen Yemen's oil spill response capability.

The Saudi led Coalition reportedly destroyed an explosive laden boat in the Southern Red Sea, according to Yemeni media. 

The UN has co-ordinated a deal in Yemen to unload more than 1 million barrels of crude oil from the rusting FSO Safer tanker and make safe what officials and experts have described as a ticking environmental time bomb.