News - Yemen: The Yemen Gas Company confirmed that the US-Saudi aggression continued to detain the tanker (Ugina) loading over 8,258 tons of domestic gas.

The company's official spokesman, Ali Maasar, told the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) that the aggression has detained the tanker since April 27, ignoring the announced truce and the United Nations entry permit to the port of Hodeidah.

He pointed out that the continued detention of the gas tanker will lead to increased the suffering of citizens in light of the ongoing abuse and piracy of the US-Saudi aggression, in addition to the high costs of gas price due to the imposition of delay fines, resulting from this unjustified arbitrary detention.

The gas company called on the United Nations to do its duty and release the gas vessel and to pressure on the aggression to implement the announced truce and stopping piracy on gas, oil derivatives, food and medicine vessels.

Last month, Yemen Petroleum Company confirmed that the US-Saudi aggression seized a new diesel tanker, despite its inspection and obtaining an entry permit from the UN to the port of Hodeidah.

The coalition of aggression continues its piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.

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.

A suffocating fuel crisis in all governorates is experienced 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.