Greenpeace calls for oil boom to counter ‘grave threat’ of abandoned tanker
Report says an oil spill from the decrepit Red Sea tanker would be ‘much wider, more severe and longer lasting’ than previously thought and disrupt shipping to and from the Suez Canal
Greenpeace has called for an oil boom to be placed around the floating storage vessel Safer and urged countries to agree how to remove its cargo. Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to block UN efforts to inspect and fix the tanker, which has 1.14m barrels of oil on board
