Saudi ship Bahri Yanbu docked in UK amid arms sales controversy Images show the Bahri Yanbu ship docked in the UK after French Secretary of State for the Armed Forces dodged a question from parliamentarians alledging the ship is soon expected in France to pick up arms supplies, at a time when the controversy over the use of French weapons in the war in Yemen is growing in France. Paris, regularly questioned, in particular by the press and NGOs for its arms sales to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, regularly claims that these weapons are used only in a defensive manner "and not on the front line". IMAGES of the Bahri Yanbu docked in Tilbury Docks in Essex in the UK