The Oil Company Reveals the Negative Effects of Britain ,America Piracy on Fuel Ships

Quting from almasirah, the Fuel ships are pirated and prevented from entering the port of Hodeidah by the American battleships and taken to Saudi ports despite obtaining permits from the United Nations Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen (UNVIM), the Executive Director of the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) Ammar Al-Adrai confirmed on Thursday.

Al-Adrai remarks came during a press conference held by the YPC in the capital, Sana’a, about the continued piracy of the coalition of aggression on fuel ships and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah.

Al-Adrai clarified that Britain and the United States of America are preventing fuel ships from reaching Yemen’s Port and politically pressuring for military gains

He indicated that in 2021 the US blockade intensified, and only five per cent of Yemen’s fuel needs were released.

“Obtaining fuel through the occupied ports costs about 50 per cent more than what is imported through the port of Hodeidah,” the Executive Director of YPC added. He explained that the Yemeni people incurred six million dollars during 2021 as levies to obtain fuel through the land ports, which went to the pockets of Saudi-mercenaries.

He pointed out that the fuel tanker travels a distance of 1,300 kilometers on a long road fraught with dangers, armed points and levies for Saudi-mercenaries until it reaches the free zones.

Al-Adhrai noted that more than one billion and one million liters flowed through the land ports during 2021 with the coalition tightening the policy of piracy of fuel ships.

He stressed that the citizen pays 6,300 Yemeni riyals for every 20 liters of gasoline, additional illegal costs that go to finance the mercenaries’ wars.

Since June 2020, the aggression and its allied government have continued to prevent fuel ships from entering the port of Hodeidah, except for a few ships that entered the port with a large time difference between each ship. Most of the ships left the place where they were being held by the forces of aggression, with their full cargo, after accumulating delay fines, exceeding the price of the cargo.

The coalition’s detention of dozens of fuel ships during more than a year and a half, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite being subject to inspection in accordance with the approved UN inspection and verification mechanism, and having obtained all the necessary permits from the UN inspection mission, caused a suffocating fuel crisis in all governorates. under the authority of Sana’a. Most of the important vital sectors, especially the health sector, are threatened with suspension, while work has been disrupted in many productive and service sectors, which caused economic losses of millions of dollars.

The fuel stations announced that their stocks of oil had run out. Hundreds of vehicles stood in long queues in front of these stations, hoping that shipments of oil would arrive in the coming days. Meanwhile, representatives of commercial power stations told subscribers in several neighborhoods of the capital, Sana’a, that these stations will have to cut off the power for hours during the day and night, as a result of the lack of diesel running these stations.