Red Sea attacks latest threat to Yemen’s decaying oil tanker

Mounting maritime security threats off Yemen’s coast have stalled work on scrapping a decrepit oil tanker, officials have told AFP, jeopardising a rare success story in the war-torn country. The FSO Safer, a 48-year-old vessel with a corroding hull, was for years described as a “ticking time bomb”, going unserviced as fighting raged in Yemen […]

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