The UN said over 1 million barrels of oil have been removed from the tanker, off Yemen's Red Sea coast. For years, the UN and other organizations had sounded the alarm over the dangers surrounding the corroding vessel, Ednews informs via DW.
The United Nations announced on Friday successfully transferring all the oil carried by a decaying tanker off the Yemeni coast, ending a threat earlier described as a "ticking time bomb."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "welcomes the news that the ship-to-ship transfer of oil from the FSO Safer to the Yemen replacement vessel has been safely concluded today, avoiding what could have been a monumental environmental and humanitarian catastrophe," a statement said.