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Albanian authorities prevent docking of Turkish ship with hazardous waste

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Albanian authorities have prevented a ship suspected of transferring a huge amount of hazardous waste from docking at Tirana’s main port, officials said, after a watchdog group alerted authorities.Prosecutors ordered the containers seized and stored “at an environmentally and physically safe place” for monitoring.The Turkish-flagged Moliva XA443A ship was then kept about a mile away from the port of Durres, 33 kilometres west of the capital, Tirana.

According to the Seattle-based Basel Action Network nongovernmental organisation, or BAN, which focuses on environmental issues, the ship has been flagged by authorities since August.The group said it had received a whistleblower's note that its “102 containers” are suspected of carrying “an estimated 2,100 total metric tonnes of ...

waste pollution control filter dust from the steel industry” and alerted several transit countries.The “massive shipment” first left Durres on 4 July on two Maersk-chartered ships with the “intended destination of Thailand,” BAN said.Ultimately, Thailand refused to accept the shipment, asking authorities in Singapore to stop it.

The Turkish-flagged ship would later have stopovers in Portugal, Spain and the Italian port of Gioia Tauro before returning to Albania after a three-month journey across continents.

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