An oil tanker that was woefully neglected during Yemen’s ongoing war was at risk of sinking. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ABOARD ESO SAFER, Yemen - When an alarm sounded on the decaying oil tanker off Yemen’s coast, signalling a leak in its engine room, Mr Hussein Nasser quickly sprang into action.
The United Nations hopes anxiety about the 47-year-old Safer – which has been woefully neglected during Yemen’s ongoing war – is about to ease. That depends on the successful transfer of its oil to, which arrived off the country’s coast on Sunday. “Anxiety accompanies us all the time as a result of the worn-down condition of the ship,” Mr Nasser, an engineer with short greying hair and a dark moustache, told AFP.“The Safer is like a front line and we have had to fight on it – no different from a military front line,” Mr Nasser said.
After more than eight years without maintenance, there is no disputing the ship is in awful condition, with rust and fast-spreading fungus streaking its red-and-grey hull, whose thickness has worn away by four millimetres in places.
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