UN says 4 cranes arrive in Yemen to speed aid deliveries

Smoke raise as people inspect damage at the site of an air strikes in the city of Saada, Yemen January 6, 2018. REUTERS/Naif Rahma

The U.N. says a ship has arrived in Yemen with four mobile cranes to speed up the delivery of humanitarian aid and commercial goods to the war-torn country, which is facing the world's worst hunger crisis.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that the cranes, purchased by the U.N. World Food Program and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, will be operational immediately at the port of Hudaida, which handles about 70 percent of Yemen's imports.