UN hands over vessel to Houthis as oil transfer of decaying tanker set to start

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UN hands over vessel to Houthis as oil transfer of decaying tanker set to start

STORY: UN hands over vessel to Houthis as oil transfer of decaying tanker set to start DATELINE: July 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:37 LOCATION: HODEIDAH, Yemen CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a UN team doing preparation work on FSO Safer 2. various of the Nautica tanker arriving at the site of FSO Safer STORYLINE: The United Nations delivered a replacement vessel to Yemen's Houthi group on Monday as part of an urgent mission to avert a potential oil spill from the decaying Safer tanker off Yemen's western coast. The handover ceremony took place aboard the Nautica, the replacement tanker chartered by the UN in March that arrived at the location of the Safer on Sunday. During the ceremony, which was attended by UN officials and representatives from the Houthi authorities, the tanker was officially renamed the Yemen. A team employed by the UN will start the transfer of approximately 1.14 million barrels of crude oil from the Safer to Yemen in the coming days. The Safer, originally constructed as a supe

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