Rickety ships threaten to close Aden port

ADEN, Jan. 07 (YPA) – The dilapidated ships off Yemen coast might threaten to create the biggest potential environmental disaster in the port of Ade, south of Yemen.

Local navigational sources revealed that the Yemeni businessman Ahmed Saleh Al-Eisi Al- has 12 dilapidated ships that are about to sink off the coast of the port of Aden, warning of a catastrophe by closing the port and hindering the entry of ships loaded with goods and foodstuffs to the port, after the dilapidated “Athena” ship, belonging to Al-Eisi, sank in Aden.

The sources explained that the ship, Athena, is ready to sink, after the oil spill off the coast of Brega, after Yemen Oil 6 ran aground at the end of the year 2022.

The sources stated that the ships and vessels of Al-Eisi’s Al-Bahar Company have contributed to polluting the marine environment in Yemen, starting with the tanker, Champion, in Mukalla city of Hadramout in 2013, passing through the Gulf Dove ship in Socotra in 2019, the sinking of DIAA ship in Aden in 2021, and the Princess of the Sea in 2022, and the delinquency of Yemen Oil 6 at the end of 2022.