Chemical vessel damage|The partially unruly ship is still at anchor in the North Sea. It has an ammonium nitrate cargo on board, but the risk of explosion is estimated to be low.
in the North Sea the Ruby cargo ship, which is still at anchor, will not be allowed to enter Malta’s ports until the ship’s potentially dangerous ammonium nitrate cargo has been unloaded, say Maltese newspapers.
On Monday, it was reported that the ship was leaving from the southern part of Norway towards Malta. The ship has been stopped in the south of Norway since Friday.
“The ship can only enter the port in Malta if it unloads its cargo. If this doesn’t happen, it won’t reach Malta’s territorial waters,” said the representative of the port Malta Today for the magazine.
A spokesman for the Malta Transport Authority also gave for the Times of Malta a similar statement.
Ruby set off over a month ago from Russia from the port of Kantalahti to the Canary Islands. However, the ship was damaged after leaving port, probably during a bottoming, and has been trying to get repaired ever since.
Over the weekend, the ship was supposed to proceed through the Danish straits to the Baltic Sea and continue from there to Lithuania for repairs, but Lithuania did not give permission for this and demanded that the cargo be unloaded first.
Ruby is partially out of control due to her damage.
Ruby’s cargo is 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate. Just under 3,000 tons of the same substance caused a major explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, four years ago. However, the authorities have assessed that in the case of the Ruby ship, the risk of an explosion is small.
Ruby’s new problems were reported earlier Ilta-Sanomat and Evening newspaper.
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