Retired aircraft carrier on route for scrapping

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The "toxic boat" crossed Canarian waters, a few kilometers from Fuerteventura as "Pedro for his house"

Since last Friday he has been wandering through the international corridor between two of the largest islands of the Archipelago such as Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, and now, as the Efe agency attests, there is no record of his destination, given that the Ottoman country does not want to know anything about such an environmental problem.

 

NGOs from countries such as Belgium and the United States warn of the radioactive waste that the ship keeps through the cadmium paint that it intended to protect from such nuclear tests, not to mention the considerable tons of asbestos that also remain on the ship in question, as well as heavy materials that, in practice, they fail to comply with all kinds of anti-pollution treaties in terms of maritime transport, advances Diario de Avisos.

 

As verified in the AIS maritime transit system (which yesterday detailed how the ship, dragged by a Dutch-flagged tugboat called ALP Centre, sailed yesterday still near Lanzarote), the official destination of such a controversial vessel was the Turkish port of Aliaga, but that country has annulled the permit once granted for the Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo to be scrapped in Turkish shipyards when it does not receive the mandatory reports on the presence of toxic materials, the Turkish government reported. "The decision has been made to cancel the conditional permit granted to the ship NAE Sao Paulo. Under this decision, permission will not be given for it to enter Turkish waters," said a statement released by Turkish Environment Minister Murat Kurum.

 

Helplessness in the Canary Islands

 

Government sources acknowledged yesterday to Diario de Avisos that the Spanish authorities, tied hands and feet because the Canarian waters remain unprotected without having the protection of a state given the rules established in this regard by the Montego Bay Convention (Jamaica) held in 1982 and which entered into force a decade later.

 

Of course, the monitoring of the passage of the old French aircraft carrier resold to Brazil and today out of use that crosses this weekend the Canarian waters towed by a Dutch flag vessel contracted for this purpose and that does not comply with any environmental regulation on international maritime transport is constant by the Spanish port authorities in the Canary Islands, however much consolation it may be in case of any incident.

 

What is evident is that the ship is still heading towards the Mediterranean Sea, and unofficial sources point to the Greek island of Kios. That, if the international regulations in this regard are not complied with before, of course.

 

The ship's transport now defies a court order from Brazil's Federal District Court and, according to multiple activist groups, has been exported in violation of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, as well as the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Mediterranean Coastal Region.

 

According to environmental organizations, the movement from São Paulo from Brazil to Turkey is also illegal, as it violates the 1996 Izmir Protocol on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and the Barcelona Convention, which does not allow the entry of this waste into the Mediterranean Sea unless it is destined for an EU country for recycling or disposal.

 

The export of the ship also violates the Basel Convention, since Brazil did not recognize the Izmir Protocol, which imposes a ban on Turkey and did not notify or receive the consent of the possible states that it will encounter during its trip, these are, Spain, Morocco and the United Kingdom (by the Strait of Gibraltar). In addition, NGOs claim that the IHM (Hazardous Materials Inventory) is suspected of being underestimated.

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Tamara I saw the headline and thought this was going to be a dig at the HMS Prince of Wales with all its wows off the Isle of White / Portmouth😢😢😢

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The refusal of the different countries to scrapping keeps it "stumbling" across the Atlantic

 

According to the digital of the dean of the press of the Canary Islands, the Diario de Avisos, an environmental nightmare returns to the waters of the Canary Islands. As no one wants it, given that it is a pile of toxic scrap, the Dutch-flagged tugboat hired by a company to pull an old Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier that was once the pride of France retraces its steps and sails, at the close of this edition, towards the Archipelago, where it already happened a week ago.

 

Then, and certainly in proof of the policy of transparency on the part of the Delegation of Government of Spain in the Islands, the maritime captain of the province of Las Palmas recognized to the Dean of the Press of the Canary Islands that at all times the passage of such a dangerous ship through the corridor of international waters existing between two of the three largest islands was monitored, such as Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura.

 

Fortunately, nothing happened and the former Gallic Foch – later called Sao Paulo after its sale to the Government of Brazil – continued on its way, but the Islands are again threatened by this cause.

 

 

The dimension of what is happening is given by good NGOs such as the Belgian Schipbreaking Platform and the American Basel Action Network, which sent on August 8 to the Government of Spain, the United Kingdom and the authorities of Gibraltar a letter that, on the one hand, explained that the old aircraft carrier violates the international treaty signed in Barcelona back in 1975 for the protection of the Mediterranean because it continues having tons of asbestos, as Greenpeace denounced in 2006 regarding its sister ship, but also, eye, radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests carried out by France in the Pacific from the mid-sixties of the last century onwards, especially in not a few tons of cadmium used as paint as protection, about 170.

 

Environmentalists also denounce that the immense ship that concerns us carries almost 650 tons of heavy materials whose discharge into the ocean would be catastrophic.

 

It should be remembered that a federal judge in Brazil -the country from which it sailed- that the ship in question was located and returned to port, as stated in documentation held by DIARIO DE AVISOS, while in Turkey, one of whose ports, Aliaga, was initially listed as an official destination, it was already clarified in recent days that it is neither expected nor desired there because it is now strictly prohibited from docking in them, as Efe testified.

 

Even so, he continued towards the Mediterranean – in information not officially confirmed – on his way to the Greek island of Kios. It would not be surprising if the collision of a bulk carrier with an oil tanker and the consequent leakage of fuel has made the Gibraltar authorities reconsider.

 

Be that as it may, Coalición Canaria has already asked in the regional Parliament if the regional authorities had been informed of the aforementioned ecological risk.

 

Now, as can be seen in the international maritime location system, it retraces its steps and, after reaching the height of Casablanca, it is already on par with Agadir.

Edited to add screen grab from Marine Traffic (shows as circles in middle of pic) as at 10pm: