Ship in Need of Repairs Has Explosive Cargo, but No Dock | The MV Ruby has meandered around Europe’s northwestern coastline under a cloud of suspicion over its thousands of tons of Russian fertilizer.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

Ship in Need of Repairs Has Explosive Cargo, but No Dock | The MV Ruby has meandered around Europe’s northwestern coastline under a cloud of suspicion over its thousands of tons of Russian fertilizer.

deranger@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

Isn’t that the same scenario that led to the massive Beirut explosion a few years back?

girlfreddy@lemmy.ca · 2 months ago

The Beirut explosion was due to ammonium nitrate “having been confiscated by Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus” - then stashed in a warehouse for 6 years without safety measures.

On August 2, 2020 a fire broke out at the warehouse, which also housed a stash of fireworks.

Cue explosion. Source

silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

And in Canada in 1917

Ship in Need of Repairs Has Explosive Cargo, but No Dock | The MV Ruby has meandered around Europe’s northwestern coastline under a cloud of suspicion over its thousands of tons of Russian fertilizer.

Ship in Need of Repairs Has Explosive Cargo, but No Dock | The MV Ruby has meandered around Europe’s northwestern coastline under a cloud of suspicion over its thousands of tons of Russian fertilizer.

nytimes.com