UN starts emergency plan to salvage Yemen’s corroding oil tanker

AL-MUKALLA: The UN has begun part one among an emergency plan to rescue a deteriorating oil tanker close to Yemen’s western metropolis of Hodeidah after acquiring funding from donors, a UN official instructed Arab Information, boosting hopes of defusing the nation’s “ticking time bomb.”

Russell Geekie, communication officer for UN Humanitarian Coordinator David Gressly, stated that the UN is in negotiations with an organization to rescue the tanker in addition to safe a vessel to dump the oil, and {that a} workforce is engaged on drafting a rescue technique.