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Wide view for commercial ships  at sea port in Hudaydah city.

Hudaydah is the fourth-largest city in Yemen and its principal port on the Red Sea.

Situated on the Red Sea, Al-Hudaydah is an important port, exporting coffee, cotton, dates and hides.

It was developed as a seaport in the mid-19th century by the Ottoman Turks.

As of June 2018, three quarters of humanitarian and commercial cargo entering Yemen arrived via the port of Hudaydah.

It serves as the entry point for Yemen’s humanitarian aid and around 70% of commercial imports.

The port of Ras Isa is slightly north of Al Hudaydah proper, and is the terminus of the Marib–Ras Isa oil pipeline from inland Yemen, with a major storage and offloading vessel

named FSO Safer moored offshore, though idled since the beginning of the Yemeni Civil War in 2015.