“Shipbreaking” #72, the International Shipbreaking Show
“Shipbreaking” #72
the Bulletin of information and analysis on end-of-life ships
April-May-June-July-August-September 2024
97 pages – 128 sources (16.8 Mo)
The Ruby is moving
Update 9 p.m.: The Ruby is heading for the port of Great Yarmouth, in the Norfolk County in England. She will arrive there tonight to be unloaded.
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Ruby press release n°2
Sunday, October 27, 2024 – 16:00
Having left the port of Kandalakcha in the White Sea, east of Murmansk, on August 22, 2024 with around 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, the Ruby is heading at a speed of 8 knots for an unknown destination. She is sailing north. She is “on order”, as the shipping industry puts it. Before taking off, the Ruby was refuelled by the small UK-flagged bunker tanker Fortuna III. The Ruby is currently accompanied by the tug CMS Thunderer, also UK-flagged.
Ruby is not “the wages of fear”
Mor Glaz and Robin des Bois NGOs’ common press release
Landerneau, Finistère, and Paris, October 4, 2024
As if there weren’t enough humanitarian and environmental disasters going on these days, the Ruby cargo ship is now being portrayed as a floating Hiroshima or Beirut, a particularly explosive and anxiogenic cocktail.
Elementary, my dear Watson!
The Kingdom of Denmark allowed in the special autonomous region of Greenland between 2013 and 2023 the harvest of 30,764 harbour porpoises, 4,772 narwhals, 2,956 long-finned pilot whales, 2,457 belugas, 1,787 common minke whales, 1,572 white-sided or white-beaked dolphins, 274 killer whales, 77 fin whales, 57 northern bottlenose whales, 49 humpback whales and 2 bowhead whales.
Lima, the review
69th IWC – Press release n°3
– The resolution on the contribution of whales to food security stranded behind the scenes and did not make it to the debating table. Despite Japanese and Norwegian propaganda, more and more members of the human species are refusing to include whale meat in their diet (1).
– At the initiative of the European Union, the resolution recalling the obligation set under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to cooperate with a view to the conservation of marine mammals and work through the appropriate international organizations was accepted by 37 votes in favour, 12 against and 8 abstentions. Iceland, Norway and Japan, which openly hunt whales for commercial purposes in violation of the moratorium, are signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
