Cases / Oil spill · Yemen · 2023
UN reaches 75% of funding goal for FSO Safer tanker salvage
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Donors and crowdfunding, not the parties to the conflict, paid for the FSO Safer tanker salvage off Yemen. The sources reviewed do not set out what is at stake for nature.
What?
Donors and crowdfunding paid for the FSO Safer salvage operation, and the UN reached 75% of its funding goal, Maritime Executive reported. Maritime Executive
Where?
Yemen Maritime Executive
When?
2023 Maritime Executive
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Funded by donations and crowdfunding; the sources reviewed do not describe the salvage method. Maritime Executive
5 of 6 questions answered from the record · open: who
What happened
The record, in order.
Maritime Executive reported that donors and crowdfunding, not the parties to the conflict, paid for the salvage operation.
The same outlet reported that the UN had reached 75% of the operation's funding goal.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record The sources reviewed do not say what cargo the tanker held or whether it has leaked.
- None on record The sources reviewed do not give the total funding goal in money terms.
- None on record The sources reviewed do not name who gained from the salvage operation.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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Press and investigations
- UN reaches 75% of FSO Safer funding goalMaritime Executive ·