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Carrier sells supertanker to UN to prevent environmental disaster

Belgian Euronav is selling a VLCC vessel to the United Nations to aid in work of emptying the oil-loaded tanker by Yemen that ”soon will break or explode.”
The supertanker FSO Safer has been anchored off the coast of Yemen, filled with oil cargo, for more than 30 years. It was abandoned in 2015. Now, the UN is trying empty and salvage the ship. | Photo: United Nations
The supertanker FSO Safer has been anchored off the coast of Yemen, filled with oil cargo, for more than 30 years. It was abandoned in 2015. Now, the UN is trying empty and salvage the ship. | Photo: United Nations
by DANIEL LOGAN

If the old supertanker FSO Safer, loaded with oil off the coast of Yemen, either breaks or explodes, it would cause a huge humanitarian and environmental disaster.

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