Video shows extreme close up of Beirut Port explosion, 2020
Ports throughout Europe have turned away a badly-damaged cargo ship because of its potentially explosive cargo: a mountain of Russia n fertilizer that one foreign ambassador called a “floating megabomb.”
Similar sentiments among European leaders have left the ship in limbo, floating off the coast of southeastern England for the last week with a cracked hull and damaged propeller as its managers in the United Arab Emirates try to assuage the public that the ship is no threat to them, the Times said.It left the Russian port of Kandalaksha, on the country’s northwestern coast, back in August.
So the ship headed for Britain — just as the former Lithuanian ambassador to Britain, Eitvydas Bajarunas, called it a “floating megabomb” and warned of Russian sabotage in an ill-timed column published by a European policy think tank.“Unfortunately, due to the media speculation that has surrounded this vessel, port terminals in the U.K. are reticent to take the vessel in,” the ship’s manager said last week in a statement, according to the Times.
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