Richard Meade
lloydslisted.bsky.social
Richard Meade
@lloydslisted.bsky.social
Editor-in-chief Lloydslist.com
@vesselspotter.bsky.social - Hafnia tells me that Palermo has not been in their pools since April 2020
August 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Both Yemen and the still floating FSO Safer are now under the effective control of the Houthis, the Iran-backed Yemeni militia group responsible for attacking over 100 ships since November 2023.
July 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Lloyd’s List has tracked at least three separate ship-to-ship transfers of Russia-origin cargoes onto the VLCC Yemen since it was purchased by the UN in 2023 as part of an operation to salvage the oil on board FSO Safer, a 49-year-old floating storage unit that was in danger of sinking.
July 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM