Aden refineries receive shipment of polluted diesel

ADEN, Nov. 23 (YPA) – Leader of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), Fadi Baoum, revealed that a shipment of polluted diesel was unloaded in refineries of the coalition-held city of Aden, south of Yemen.

Baoum confirmed that Hadramaut refused to unload the ship MT.AM.MOON’s cargo carrying 5,000 metric tons of polluted diesel and unusable for generators and polluting the environment, at the beginning of November.

The ship headed to the Aden refineries and unloaded the cargo at al-Zait port in Aden after being refused to be unloaded in Hadramaut, he added.

A document issued by the so-called “Anti-Corruption Agency” loyal to the coalition had indicated that the contaminated quantity included two thousand metric tons of diesel, especially in support of humanitarian work from the World Food Programme, confirming that the shipment was not fit for use according to the results of examining the shipment in Hadramout.

The document said that the shipment represents a threat to the safety of electric generators and pollutes the environment because it does not comply with specifications.

Last August, the coalition-backed government had imported many contaminated fuel shipments to Aden refineries, which caused damage to electrical generators and polluted the environment.

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