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Houthis will allow salvage teams to attend to blazing Greek tanker

The Houthis in Yemen will permit salvage workers to go to the severely damaged Sounion suezmax tanker in the Red Sea and enable it to be towed, according to a statement made yesterday by Iran’s UN mission.


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Eight days ago, in international seas between Yemen and Eritrea, the ship was repeatedly targeted by the Houthis. The Houthis released a spectacular video of the moment they set fire to the ship, which is owned by Greece’s Delta Tankers. It has been burning since August 23.

Yesterday, the EU naval force in the area provided an update on the Delta Tankers vessel’s condition, cautioning that it still poses a risk to navigation and poses a “serious and imminent threat of regional pollution,” which might result in a “catastrophic environmental crisis.”

The EU naval team said that effective mitigation would need tight cooperation and the active engagement of regional nations.

“There is widespread concern about the damage such a spill would cause within the region, and the risk of an oil spill, posing an extremely serious environmental hazard, remains high,” stated International Maritime Organization secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez yesterday.

States won’t be qualified to get funding from the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds in the event that the ship leaks itself. When there is damage resulting from conflicts, civil war, revolt, or acts of war, such payments are exempt.

150 000 tons of crude oil are being transported from Iraq by the Sounion. Statistics maintained by the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) show that the severely damaged ship might become the sixth worst oil leak of all time, potentially pouring four times as much as the Exxon Valdez, perhaps the most well-known casualty in tanker transport history.

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