$ 600 million losses of Hodeidah`s port because of raids and blockade

YemenExtra

The head of the Red Sea Ports Authority in Sana’a, Mohammed Abu Bakr Ishaq, said that the Saudi-led aggression coalition prevented last January from handing over four mobile cranes to the blocked port of Hodeidah.

The World Food Program (WFP) arranged the arrival of the four levers of the port, to help ease congestion inside it, after the Saudi aggression destroyed five levers last year, forcing dozens of ships to wait at sea off the port, until the role of anchorage.

The World Food Program confirmed that cranes were denied entry into the port and announced that the cranes, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), had been returned to Dubai after waiting off the coast for more than a week.

A spokesman for the Saudi Aggression Coalition claimed that the World Food Program had not coordinated with the Alliance before moving ahead and sending the cranes, claiming that “the Huthis wanted cranes to find a source of income from imports to finance the war.”

In an interview with Reuters Television, Ishaq said that “more than 60 percent to 80 percent of the port’s capabilities were destroyed,” adding that this caused a direct and indirect loss estimated at “over $ 600 million” «Reflect the reality of the difficulties faced by the port of Hodeidah».

He pointed out «the bombing of bridges and the destruction of the bridge completely», continuing that »a large part of the equipment and superstructure encountered even real difficulties
“The port can resume activity again, and ships of foodstuffs, ships of oil derivatives, humanitarian aid ships.”

Ishaq stressed the need «to remain the port of Hodeidah, according to its current status a humanitarian trade port. This should continue. The port of Hodeidah complies with an international security and safety monitoring system, called ISB Code, which is subject to this certificate of compliance, “noting that” the port of Hodeidah was added to another illegal regulatory impediment,
But we are dealing with it by imposing a fait accompli, a United Nations observation through a special mechanism that monitors all ships entering, that is not the blockade in the external waters of our country by the coalition forces attacking this port ».

The port of Hodeidah, which receives about 80 percent of Yemen’s food and humanitarian supplies, has been repeatedly hit by air strikes from the Saudi aggression coalition.

The port suffered heavy financial losses as a result of the closure of the airspace and the territorial blockade imposed by the aggression.

Source: YemenPress