26,000 km at sea for nearly 3,000 cows
Spiridon II – Press release n°2
The Spiridon II, 52 years old, flying the Togolese flag, left Montevideo, Uruguay, on September 19 with her live “goods”, arrived off the coast of Bandirma, Türkiye, on October 22, was quarantined for 23 days, and then set sail again for Montevideo with her “cargo”. She is scheduled to arrive in mid-December.Livestock carriers: 2,901 cows in distress
Spiridon II – Press release n°1
In this 52-year-old livestock carrier in quarantine off Bandırma in Türkiye, around 20 men and 2,853 cows are trapped in an unworthy and shamefully persistent international business.
Gaza, mon amour
The warquake caused by the friction between the territorial plates of Israel and Palestine are centering around and dragging on in a territory that was once a paradise. The Gaza Strip covers 365 km² on the eastern Mediterranean coast, the same area as Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the western Mediterranean coast.
Maritime traffic hits rock bottom –n°2
Here we are for the Morning Midas, 5,000 metres below sea level, 830 km from Adak Island, one of the 302 Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea between Alaska and the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Morning Midas, which had been on fire since June 3, was operated by the London-based company Zodiac Maritime. The wreck contains 3,048 vehicles, including 70 electric and 681 hybrid, 350 tonnes of diesel and 1,530 tonnes of fuel oil, plus fuel for combustion engine and hybrid cars.
White flag on nuclear sites – 2
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A few days after Russia’s attempted invasion of Ukraine, the NGO Robin des Bois (Robin Hood) was the first, or among the first, to stress the urgent need to impose the inviolability of nuclear sites in war zones that international diplomacy has been unable to prevent (1).
