Impact of Saudi Blockade on Yemen's Port

The mooring lines for container ships in the Port of Hodeidah are tied

and its berths are empty in Yemen's most vital artery.

Three years of the port receiving container ships had passed

just before the Saudi enemy reneged on the de- escalation agreement and worked

to eliminate and disrupt

container shipping to the port, at a time of

maritime shipping revolution and the reshaping of the global economy through it.

The Saudi shift toward blockading Yemen's imports of goods and commodities via their

optimal means of transport resumed along multiple paths,

focusing from the start on targeting the most important facility in the port,

ever since Saudi Arabia, under US leadership,

destroyed the operating cranes in the port during the first year of aggression,

aiming to undermine confidence within the maritime shipping community and

prevent container shipping lines from sending vessels to the port.

All data documents the fading of container unloading and handling

operations completely since July 2021.

Official information shows that this excessive Saudi aggression has gone

through several stages Before reaching its peak and paralyzing the activity of the

Yemenis' most important port which previously received more than 300,000

containers per year, while today, it does not receive even a

single container.

This deadly, clear, declared, and boasted- about Saudi

blockade prevents the arrival of three million tons of containerized goods annually.

The blockaders have disrupted eight of

the world's largest container shipping lines from directing ships to the port

of Hodeidah, the largest cargo port in Yemen, under the pressure of

unexpected, costly, and unjustified delays.

The manifestations of the blockade are many, and in this context,

they show that a ship waited 396 days, resulting in accumulated fuel

and cooling expenses of more than five million dollars.

The United Nations has previously confirmed that the blockade coalition takes

an average of ten days to grant ships transit permits

toward Hodeidah, and this is only for cases that are

not delayed. And under the deadly Saudi blockade,

For about 12 years,

the port of Al- Hudaydah has never received a ship carrying medicine.

And when some tried to cross, they were delayed for months at best,

and during that time, they were damaged

or expired under the sponsorship of the Kingdom and under its umbrella,

and in other cases, with Saudi financial backing,

to the point where it is difficult to estimate the cumulative commercial and

humanitarian effects of the blockade imposed on Yemen.

The convergence of these factors and evidence shows the world that Saudi

aggression designed everything to ensure the Yemeni people do not get the

supplies they need normally, which had a heavy price on the

humanitarian level, which is what the Kingdom of the Horn of Satan

demands, while it waits to reap the results of its maximum pressure to raise the

cost of living and provide the appropriate

environment for hunger to flourish, disease, and

unemployment.