‘Significant threat’: Pollution kit appeal for bulker sunk by two Houthi missiles

The International Maritime Organization has launched an appeal for a remotely operated vehicle and other kit to prepare for a pollution spill from a bulker sunk in a Houthi attack off Yemen.

The 32,000-dwt Rubymar (built 1997) was hit by two missiles fired by the rebel group on 18 February and left a 29 km slick before it sank nearly two weeks later.