The UN estimates that a potential spill of the FSO Safer's cargo would result in $20 billion of cleanup costs.
that a potential spill of tanker Safer's cargo would result in $20 billion of cleanup costs, have a "severe" environmental impact on water and reefs on Yemen's coast, and cause disruptions to the Bab al-Mandab strait in the Suez Canal.The oil aboard the tanker began being transferred to a U.N.-owned vessel Yemen, previously known as Nautica, at 10:45 Yemen time Tuesday.
"The @UN has begun a complex operation to transfer 1 million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker off the coast of Yemen. We need to keep working to defuse what remains a ticking time bomb & avoid what would be by far the worst oil spill of our era," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday on the X social media platform, previously known as Twitter.
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