Posted on 09/27/2006 12:18:10 PM PDT by verum ago
Estonia has immobilised the ship at the heart of an environmental scandal in Ivory Coast and launched a criminal investigation after finding toxic waste on board, prosecutors said.The investigation was opened at the request of the environment ministry after the results of analyses conducted on the residue left from cleaning the Probo Koala's oil tanks came today," Piret Seeman, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, told АFР on Wednesday.
"The results of the analyses show similarities between the waste on board the Probo Koala in Estonia and the waste delivered by the Probo Koala to Ivory Coast, which caused mass poisoning there," Seeman said.
Last month Trafigura Beheer, the Netherlands-based shipping company that leased the Probo Koala, offloaded more than 500 tonnes of waste -- reportedly a mixture of oil residue and caustic soda used to rinse out the ship's tanks -- from the vessel in Ivory Coast.
A local company charged with disposing of the waste dumped it on open-air rubbish tips in the commercial capital Abidjan, a city of four million people, sparking an environmental catastrophe which has claimed eight lives, seen 69 people hospitalised and triggered 80,000 calls to doctors for medical help.
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Occasionally I have suspected the bunkers my ship received in various ports of the world contained other than plain bunker C.
Did Rosie get liposuctioned?
"Baku Today" is pretty darn obscure. How'd you hear about this? I don't know anyone who reads Azerbaijani web sites, even those in English.
Did you run Pielsticks ?
More MUSLIM business ethics
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It was offloaded by a Dutch shipping company.
That's a lot of rubbish tips. Didn't anyone notice? Maybe not in Abidjan.
There are a lot of muzzies in Holland. Ask Teddie van Gogh.
GE steam turbines till late 1980's and then Sulzer diesels.
My last ship was steam turbine.
I ran bunkers on the Great Lakes, mainly Lake Superior, which is a bulk cargo port (stone, ore, coal, grain.) Lots of V-16 Pielsticks on the US side, which were sold and serviced by Colt. The chiefs were very fussy, for the most part, insisting on 11.7 API and 151 visc for a 280 CST. Most of our feed was about 380/400 CST, so this was about a 2-3 percent blend with N2. One boat stipulated 270 centistokes and that's what we made up. We also had Canadian and "salty" vessels via the Seaway. Some Europeans asked for IFO 60 or IFO 100 which we could make via our tanker's inline blending capability. I met a lot of good people from this trade. Always fair and usually got an initation to have dinner if they were in port for a while.
I grew up in Milwaukee and always enjoyed going to Jones Island to look at the Lake boats. That's probably what encouraged me to go to sea.
About 1990-3 I remember entering Kaohsiung, Taiwan harbor and directly ahead of me were three Great Lake carriers tied up to await scrapping. Same ones I had looked at and touched as a kid. >:
Probably the US Steel boats that had been parked in Duluth/Superior for 30 years waiting for a national emergency. I have the bell and some other stuff off of one of these old dogs.
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