Report: Aden port is in complete paralysis and workers face threat of departure

ADEN, Aug 30 (YPA) -The port of Aden, which is under control of the Saudi-led coalition, has been witnessing a complete paralysis of commercial traffic at a time the workers are threatening to leave the port.

According to a media observatory specialised in the economy, the port of Aden is threatened with inability to pay the salaries of its workers and employees as a result of decisions taken by the pro-coalition government and “Presidential Leadership Council”.

The Buqish Observatory published a report which stated that the container port and the various facilities of the port of Aden suffer from a state of non-work, which threatens the port with the inability to pay the salaries of workers and employees, after the port used to receive dozens of ships daily.

The report stressed that “Customs and the Office of Standards and Metrology inside the container port are not working, and the flow of hard currency through the National Bank of Yemen inside the port has stopped.”

The report stated that this “is due to the pro-coalition government’s decision to raise the value of the customs dollar from 500 to 750 riyals per dollar, in violation of the law, at a time when the port of Hodeidah [operated by the National Salvation Government in non-occupied Yemen] was opened at a customs dollar price of 250 riyals, which prompted most traders to transfer their activities to Hodeidah.”

According to activist Nizar Sararo, who previously filed a lawsuit to cancel the decision to raise the customs dollar, “the rent of hangars in Hodeida is less than $100 for a large area of 50 by 50 meters, unlike Aden, whose rent is not less than $1,000 for the same area, in addition to the presence of royalties on containers and locomotives in it, which don’t exist in the port of Hodeida.”

E.M