YPC: Saudi-led coalition detains 9 food, oil tankers

SANAA, Jan. 15 (YPA) – Yemeni Petroleum Company (YPC) on Wednesday confirmed that Saudi-led coalition continued to detain nine tankers off Jizan port and prevent them from reaching the port of Hodeidah.

The company explained in a statement that the number of ships detained by the aggression amounted to nine food and oil ships despite obtaining permits to enter the port of Hodeidah.

The aggression held theses ships in order to tighten the stranglehold on the citizens and increase their suffering, the statement said.