Losses of Transport sector in Yemen as a result of US-Saudi Aggression


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Yemen News Agency SABA
 Losses of Transport sector in Yemen as a result of US-Saudi Aggression
[29/ March/2023]
SANA'A March 29.2023 (Saba) -The land, sea and air transport sectors lost during the period "March 2015 - March 2023" were about 13 billion 442 million and 851 thousand dollars, distributed among the aviation sectors by 51%, the marine 42%, and the land and its facilities 7%.

Air transport losses represented by the Civil Aviation and Meteorological Authority, Yemen Airways and Al-Saeeda Airlines amounted to 6 billion and 870 million dollars and 27 thousand dollars, and maritime transport represented by the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation and the General Authority for Maritime Affairs two billion and 427 million and 577 thousand dollars, and the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation 3 billion and 254 One million and 970 thousand dollars, and land transport represented by the General Authority for Regulating Land Transport Affairs and the Local Corporation for Land Transport 890 million and 276 thousand dollars.

The statistics of “Eye of Humanity” and the Legal Center, published on March 25, 2023, talk about the destruction of “15-16” airports, “15-16” seaports, “4453-10279” means of transportation, and “666-1040” food trucks. And "2750-7293" roads and bridges.

A report by the Ministry of Transport revealed that the aggression targeted 2,040 means of transporting foodstuffs, 390 tankers, 10,290 different means of transport, and 7,293 bridges and roads.

The General Corporation for Roads and Bridges, in a report published in August 2022, estimated the total losses at 3 billion and 665 million dollars, including the destruction of 102 bridges by the aggression, at a cost of one billion and 675 million dollars, and 5,000 kilometers of roads were damaged, at a cost of one billion and 461 million dollars.

The aggression raids halted maintenance operations on a large part of the network, including 10,500 kilometers, in urgent need of intervention and maintenance to prevent its complete collapse.

The losses of rural roads amounted to 11 million and 215 thousand dollars, and the General Corporation for Roads and Bridges amounted to 168 million dollars due to the aggression’s bombing of its equipment, stores, facilities and technical teams.

The cumulative annual losses for one year amount to 30 million dollars as a result of the decline in the activity that the Corporation was carrying out before the years of aggression through the investment program for the implementation of road and bridge projects.

The aggression’s targeting of the institution’s machinery and equipment amounted to 32 million and 400 thousand dollars, and the losses of targeting buildings and facilities amounted to 5 million and 700 thousand dollars.

The direct losses of the institution as a result of 54 million dollars, losses from work interruption amounted to 44 million and 700 thousand dollars, and losses from the shortfall in the value of outstanding debts amounted to 28 million dollars.

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resource : SABA