A month after reporting that three crew members from the product tanker Seven Pears had been injured during the strikes targeting the port of Ras Isa in western Yemen, Russian officials said that the rest of the tanker’s crew has been evacuated.
Russian embassy in Yemen spokesman reported that the crew members of the tanker were injured, “most likely as a result of the American air strike on the infrastructure facilities and that the shipping company was making arrangements to evacuate the three injured seafarers. At the time, the other 19 crew members were staying aboard after reporting they had sufficient supplies, but flew on May 25 from Sanaa to Amman in Jordan and was returning to Russia.
The Seven Pearls, registered in St. Kitts and Nevis but managed from Dubai in the UAE, was one of several vessels in the port. Records show that the tanker had regularly traded between the UAE, Djibouti, and Houthi control’s ports of Yemen.
Reports after the U.S. air strikes said the Houthis had not permitted vessels to leave the port and the product tanker however remains in Ras Isa.