REUTERS, OCTOBER 14, 2020 DUBAI (Reuters) – A United Nations team will have to wait several weeks to access a deteriorating tanker off Yemen’s shore that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil in the Red Sea, two U.N. sources told Reuters. The United Nations has warned that the Safer, stranded since 2015, could spill four times …
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Houthis to allow UN access to ticking time-bomb oil-tanker off of Yemen
PortandTerminal.com, July 12, 2020 An oil tanker stranded off the coast of Yemen ‘threatens environmental disaster four times worse than Exxon Valdez’|Reports say situation deteriorating rapidly RAS ISA, YEMEN – A stranded tanker loaded with oil off the coast of Yemen is threatening a massive environmental disaster in the Red Sea with experts describing the situation as a “floating bomb” The SAFER …
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PortandTerminal.com, December 17, 2019 A stranded tanker loaded with oil off the coast of Yemen is threatening a massive environmental disaster in the Red Sea. Experts describe the situation as a “floating bomb”. RAS ISA, YEMEN – How often do you hear about armed Middle Eastern rebels asking for help to prevent an environmental catastrophe? Never until now. Houthis rebels in …
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