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Al Jazeera Staff

UN’s Yemeni oil tanker operation: What you need to know

FSO Safer oil tanker is moored in the Red Sea, off the coast of the western Hodeidah province, Yemen [Yahya Arhab/EPA-EFE]

A UN-led operation years in the making to prevent a large-scale oil spill from occurring off Yemen’s Red Sea coast has made major gains.

The replacement vessel Nautica sailed from Djibouti, arriving at Yemen’s Hodeidah port Saturday evening, the vessel to which over 1.1 million barrels of oil will be transferred from the decaying FSO Safer supertanker.

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