A Northern Ireland company is working alongside the United Nations to help prevent a humanitarian and environmental disaster in the Red Sea.
Antrim firm Fast Engineering Ltd is supporting the UN Development Programme, as well as the International Maritime Organization, by positioning their portable FASTANK containment units at the mouth of the Red Sea in the event of a loaded oil super tanker rupturing or exploding.
FSO Safer, a floating storage vessel moored off the coast of Yemen, holds more than 1.14 million barrels of oil valued at up to $88 million. It has been held hostage, as a bargaining chip, since the start of Yemen’s civil war in 2015.
