Funding Shortage Threatens ‘FSO Safer’ Rescue Mission

The Nautica very large crude carrier is on its way to the Red Sea to unload the derelict Safer tanker (UN)

In a joint effort with the UN, Britain and the Netherlands will host a conference in two weeks aimed at raising an extra $29.4 million to salvage the deteriorating oil tanker known as FSO “Safer,” moored off the coast of Hodeidah governorate in Yemen.

The derelict supertanker has been stranded for years without maintenance, carrying around 1.1 million barrels of crude oil.