UN gets consent to examine tanker amid fears of devastating oil spill in Red Sea

The UN has finally got consent to inspect a decaying tanker stranded off Yemen with 1.1mn barrels of oil. The FSO Safer was abandoned five years ago when seawater flooded its engine room and there are fears of a harmful oil spill if maintenance work was not carried out. The UN says that the ship is ’rapidly decaying’ and has called it a ’catastrophe in waiting’ for Yemen and the Red Sea.