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One thing that's only lightly touched upon in the article: Is this journey unusual and where is the fertilizer usually unloaded? The way the article is written,
by lolc 2y ago
One thing that's only lightly touched upon in the article: Is this journey unusual and where is the fertilizer usually unloaded? The way the article is written, the ship's operators may with plausible deniability be deliberately targeting ports where a blast would be most debilitating for NATO. But where are other ships with this fertilizer unloading? It must be a common operation in European ports. Are there special ports for this, and the captain is spurning them? Ostensibly because they want to dock for repairs?
Now that I think about it, while it could be hard to sell that much fertilizer from a port where it wasn't ordered to, transfering it to another vessel not in need of repairs would solve the whole situation overnight wouldn't it? That's expensive but should be normal procedure I'd expect. So yeah what are the operators up to?