According to web searches:
Phosphoric acid is used in the manufacture of superphosphate fertilisers, livestock feeds, phosphate salts, polyphosphates, soaps, waxes, polishes and detergents.
I suspect this whole shipload of this substance is intended for an "off-label" use.
“Phosphoric acid is used in the manufacture of superphosphate fertilisers, livestock feeds, phosphate salts, polyphosphates, soaps, waxes, polishes and detergents.”
And Coca-Cola.
You might be wondering why the crews of ships are not armed. Until the UN put a stop to it, ships traveled with arms and an armory. If the captain thought his ship was about to be boarded, he’d unlock the arms and hand them out and any boarders would either think better of it or be fed to the sharks. But dictators the world over thought that ships carrying arms would lead to the crews selling or having the arms stolen by revolutionaries and got the US to ban such arms. No ship with arms can sail into most, probably all ports. If such a restriction existed anywhere the ship was likely to travel it couldn’t put into port. What do you do with a locker full of arms when you approach a port where they are banned? Thus, if you want to protect your ship from pirates you need to board armed guards where you think the danger starts and then off-board them before you arrive. As time went on, the places you could potentially be boarded got more and more. The practice of hiring guards, getting them on and off as required got expensive and is, let’s face it, impractical. The only practical answer is the way everyone did it prior to the end of WWII, which is the captain had an arms locker and a key. This can’t happen as long as a single liberal still tries to control others who he (she/them/they) never met and will never meet.
Did you know the “Let’s Go Brandon! FHB administration has begun importing Yemenites to America to work as recruiters for the American military?
More hostages?
The Ports of the world require ships to be unarmed and vulnerable.
Perhaps if they all just anchored offshore for a week in protest, this idiocy would stop.
What was the stuff that made such a huge explosion on the Beirut harbor a year or so ago?
Did the narrative pushers create another bogus boarding video?
“I suspect this whole shipload of this substance is intended for an “off-label” use.”
You suspect use by throwing acid from motorbikes?