The Ministry of Transport: more than seven billion dollars in losses for the various transport sectors
The deputy of the Ministry of Transport for the Air Transport Sector, Abdullah Al-Ansi, revealed the losses and damages that occurred to the direct and indirect land, sea, air, and air transport sectors over a period of six years, amounting to seven billion and 645 million dollars.
In a press conference, organized by the Ministry of Transport, its agencies and institutions, Al-Ansi stated that the estimated damages and losses that affected the civil aviation sector, meteorology and related sectors five billion and 277 million dollars.
He pointed out that the direct and indirect damages and losses of the Public Authority for Regulating Land Transport Affairs are 208 million dollars, while the societal damage and losses to the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation amounted to two billion and 160 million dollars.
He said, “The countries of the coalition of aggression have exerted pressure by committing crimes against humanity in Yemen, as the number of deaths resulting from the closure of Sanaa International Airport is estimated at 80 thousand deaths due to being prevented from traveling abroad and more than 450 thousand severe cases of sickness in urgent need to receive medical attention and treatment abroad.” .
The deputy of the Ministry of Transport pointed out that the Ministry, its bodies and institutions had prepared plans and programs based on studies to restore the technical readiness of the various transport facilities by relying on human capabilities instead of the machine destroyed by the aggression.
He stressed that the transport sector has proven its ability to withstand the aggression despite its exposure to constant targeting and destruction .. indicating that the Ministry of Transport and its sectors have achieved positive achievements and successes, which made the aggression impose a blockade on Yemeni airspace, civil airports, and sea and land ports to paralyze its movement and the humanitarian services it provides to two thirds of the Yemeni people Via the port of Hodeidah.
While the President of the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority, Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Qadir stated that, since the first day of March 26, 2015 AD, the aviation of aggression has targeted the civil aviation infrastructure and meteorology from civil airports, facilities, navigational devices, and civil aircraft, and impeding their activities at the Arab and international levels.
And he considered that the aggression’s targeting of the transport infrastructure is a flagrant violation of human values, principles and rights, putting an end to international agreements, treaties and covenants that criminalize all its aggressive practices.
He pointed out that the direct losses of the authority in the infrastructure of facilities and technical equipment in the airports and its affiliated sectors amounted to one billion and 700 million dollars, while the losses of the authority in revenues due to the suspension of air and non-air activities in airports and the expected losses of revenues for projects that were stopped due to the aggression amounted to 728 million dollars.
“The aggression caused losses on the sectors directly related to civil aviation, including the two Yemeni airlines and Al-Saeeda and the civilian cargo aircraft IL-76, at an amount of two billion and 849 million dollars,” he said.
Abdel-Qader explained that the aggression destroyed a number of navigation stations and radars in most of the Republic’s sites and navigation guidance devices in most airports, and the destruction and disruption of meteorological stations, which affected the loss of climate information.
He pointed out that the aggression turned a number of civilian airports in Yemen into military bases, after occupying them and turning them into barracks for its armies and mercenaries, from which the aggression against Yemen would be launched.
The head of the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority confirmed that the authority has harnessed its financial, human and technical capabilities and capabilities to continue managing and operating the civil aviation and meteorology system, preserving its air territory, and working with high professionalism and complete neutrality in various stages.
In turn, the director of projects at the Yemeni Red Sea Ports Corporation, Sami Maqbouli, stated that the American-Saudi aggression coalition inflicted the corporation and its ports in Hodeidah, Mokha, Salif and Ras Issa, great damage and losses.
He pointed out that the aggression’s aviation targeted the container terminal and the port of Hodeidah in August 2015 and completely destroyed it, and launched a series of raids on the port of Mokha in October 2015, completely destroying and occupying it, and targeted with a series of raids on the ports of Ras Isa and al-Salif.
Maqbouli reviewed the direct losses incurred by the Yemeni Red Sea Corporation ports, Al-Hudaydah, Salif, Mokha and Ras Issa, at an amount of $ 606 million and seven thousand dollars, including buildings, facilities, equipment and equipment.
He pointed to the direct losses resulting from the failure to perform periodic maintenance, the renewal of various expenses, and the loss of other revenues and returns from the beginning of the aggression to 2020 AD .. indicating that the indirect losses amounted to $ 598 million, which are projects that the corporation intends to implement to develop its activities and sidewalks, while the societal damages represented by the cessation of The activity of workers, ships and others as a result of direct aggression and arbitrary measures 920 million dollars
The Director of the Office of the Chairman of the Land Transport Regulatory Authority, Hashem Al-Wadie, stated that the direct damage and losses suffered by the authority until December 2020 amounted to six million dollars, including the bombing of the authority’s main center and the complete destruction of the Al-Tawal International Land Port and Al-Bari Port.
He pointed out that the indirect losses and damages resulting from the aggression amounted to 55 million and 902 thousand dollars as a result of the cessation of collection from the revenue channels in the ports and branches and the control of the forces of aggression and its mercenaries over the two branches of the Authority in Aden, Hadramout, the ports of deposit and the shipment of land.
Al-Wadaei pointed out that the damage included, in addition to that, the complete destruction of the international land ports of Al-Tawal and Al-Bari Al-Bari, which led to the cessation of collection of these revenues, with a loss of 88 million and 750 thousand dollars, and the disruption of work on the wage returns and services of the land ports.
He stated that the revenue losses as a result of the stalling and stalling of future projects that were scheduled to be implemented in 2015, including the stopping of construction projects at the Al-Tawal International Land Port, amounted to eight million and 875 thousand dollars.
He said, “The losses of dry port projects amounted to 35 million and 500 thousand dollars, and the projects of passenger transport stations amounted to four million and five thousand dollars, in addition to the projects of land centers for logistical services in sea ports, amounting to 8 million and 313 thousand dollars.”
And he indicated that the technical, professional and administrative cadres of the authority worked under the constant bombardment of the aggression’s aviation, to activate and revive the road transport movement and advance it from under the rubble, which the aggression sought to paralyze its effectiveness over a period of six years.
At the beginning of the conference, which was attended by deputy of the Ministry of Transport for Maritime and Ports Affairs Khaled Al-Nimr, Chargé d’Affairs of Yemeni Airlines Abdul-Malik Mutahar, and the Undersecretary of the Civil Aviation and Meteorology Authority Raed Jabal, everyone stood for a minute of silence and read Al-Fatiha for the soul of the lost nation, Minister of Transport Zakaria Yahya Al-Shami
