Firefighting on the laden tanker set alight by a Houthi bombing team is almost over after nearly seven weeks.
Salvage operations continue with “encouraging results” on the 163,800-dwt Sounion (built 2006), according to a navy information service.
The Delta Tankers suezmax with about 1m barrels of Iraqi crude on board was first attacked on 21 August in the Red Sea.
