YPC reveals in numbers negative impact of US-British piracy on fuel ships

Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC)’s Chief Executive Officer Ammar al-Adra’i has confirmed on Thursday that fuel ships  prevented from entering the port of Hodeidah due to US-backed Saudi-led coalition piracy and taken to Saudi ports despite obtaining permits from the United Nations Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen (UNVIM).

Al-Adra’i remarks came during a press conference held by the YPC in the capital, Sanaa, about Saudi-led coalition’s continued piracy on fuel ships and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah.

He explained  that Britain and the United States of America are preventing fuel ships from reaching Yemen’s Port and politically pressuring for military gains

Al-Adra’i indicated that in 2021 the US blockade intensified, and only five per cent of Yemen’s fuel needs were released.

“Obtaining fuel through the occupied ports costs about 50 per cent more than what is imported through the port of Hodeidah,” he added. He explained that the Yemeni people incurred six million dollars during 2021 as levies to obtain fuel through the land ports, which went to the pockets of Saudi-mercenaries.

He pointed out that the fuel tanker travels a distance of 1,300 kilometers on a long road fraught with dangers, armed points and levies for Saudi-mercenaries until it reaches the free zones.

Al-Adhra’i noted that more than one billion and one million liters flowed through the land ports during 2021 with the coalition tightening the policy of piracy of fuel ships.

He stressed that the citizen pays 6,300 Yemeni riyals for every 20 liters of gasoline, additional illegal costs that go to finance the mercenaries’ wars.

E.M