Tag: Yemen

As the conflict in Yemen continues to impact shipping and dangerous sea areas and changes in the operational status of ports may occur at any time, the NorthStandard provides updates received from correspondents and  advises to contact local agents for the latest advice should you have a vessel trading to Yemen.

More than 1.1 million barrels of oil were transferred from the floating storage and offloading unit FSO Safer to a new tanker, the Yemen, on August 11, 2023.

According to the United Nations and Boskalis, over a third of the crude oil successfully transferred from the FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast.

After years of negotiations, the UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast began yesterday with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel. After years of negotiations, the United Nations with its contractor Boskalis’ SMIT Salvage announced that the UN-led project to prevent a massive oil spill from the FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast began yesterday with the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from the decaying vessel.

A UN-owned ship arrived off war-torn Yemen on 16th, for a risky operation to pump more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker and prevent a catastrophic spill.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime Administrator has lowered the required Ship Security Level for RMI-registered vessels within Yemeni territorial waters and ports to Security Level 2.

Security guards on superyacht Kalizma opened fire on Yemen Coast Guard boats in Yemen last Friday, allegedly mistaking them for pirates.

IMO announced that it urges Member States to contribute equipment to help UN-led efforts to prevent a possible catastrophic oil spill from the FSO SAFER, an ageing and rapidly decaying floating storage offshore (FSO) unit moored 4.8 nautical miles off the Red Sea coast of Yemen.

Boskalis through its subsidiary SMIT Salvage has reached an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the oil removal from the FSO Safer moored off Yemen’s Red Sea coast.

On the 10th of March, Euronav signed an agreement with UN to sell a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) as part of a wider salvage operation for the FSO Safer vessel in Yemen.