Deputy Transport Minister: Coalition deliberately harms citizen by diverting containers to Aden

SANAA, Dec. 28 (YPA) – Deputy Minister of Transport, Muhammad Al-Hashemi, said on Wednesday that shipping and transporting goods from Aden city costs 10 times what it costs to ship them from Hodeida.

Al-Hashemi confirmed that the Saudi-led coalition deliberately increases the cost, explaining that the imports that were entering Yemen through the port of Hodeida were equivalent to two-thirds of the country’s imports, and the coalition worked to divert them to Aden port.

The Deputy Transport Minister indicated that “the containers that enter today through the port of Hodeida have become very limited, compared to more than 23,000 containers that enter through the port of Aden.”

Because of the damage caused by the coalition to the port of Hodeida, the Ministry of Transport has become compelled to search for ships equipped with their own cranes, he added.

YPA