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.
Nuclear security – briefing note
1. Departing St Petersburg, Russia, on 29 February 2024 bound for Philadelphia, USA, the Atlantic Navigator II made an unscheduled stop in Rostock, Germany, on 4 March due to damage to its propeller.
She left Rostock on 19 April after repairs and a customs inspection. This multipurpose cargo ship is carrying 241 containers of birch plywood from the exploitation of Arctic forests and enriched uranium.
Despite the war in Ukraine and tensions between the United States of America and the Russian Federation, trade in nuclear materials has not stopped, and Russian enriched uranium continues to supply fuel for some American nuclear power stations.
Livestock carriers: The most dangerous vessels in the world
Freiburg, Paris, 26.03.2024. Currently, only 64 livestock carriers are permitted to load European animals on EU-ports to then export them to third countries. This at least 1.5 billion € worth trade is carried out on substandard and overcrowded ships. In response, the German animal welfare organization Animal Welfare Foundation e.V. (AWF) together with the French environmental organization Robin des Bois publish a comprehensive report (pdf – 8.4 Mo) on the seaworthiness, safety, environmental compatibility, and suitability for health and animal welfare of livestock carriers trading from the European Union. The figures and our film speak volumes: the transport of live animals on decrepit vessels across the sea must end immediately. At the very least, compliance with internationally binding standards is necessary. The European Union and its Commission must finally take responsibility in this process after another three years of crippling inaction.
