“Food, water, oil,” said Ben Bailey, director of advocacy for The Mission to Seafarers. “It’s difficult for us to get supplies to these men.” He added that the problem of abandonment has become more severe during the COVID-19 pandemic as global maritime commerce has ground to a halt.
Similarly, environmentalists and union officials have warned of a possible disaster tied to an abandoned ship 13 miles off the coast of the Philippines in Manila Bay. A crew of 15 have been stuck on the Spanish tanker MV Celanova since February 2. Loaded with liquid petroleum gas, the tanker lacks enough fuel to keep the cargo refrigerated and port officials warn there is imminent risk of fire.
There is no shortage of blame to share for what happened this week in Beirut. Surely, corruption and ineptitude within the Lebanese government played a role. Customs authorities repeatedly tried to get permission from local judges to allow them to seize so they could export the ammonium nitrate or to hand it over to the Lebanese Army rather than store it dangerously in the port warehouse. Their urgent letters went unanswered for years.
The Rhosus, for instance, was flagged to Moldova, which at least since 2013 has been on a black list that is run by Paris MoU, an international naval organization that monitors and regulates maritime traffic in European waters. The organization labelled Moldovan-flagged ships as “medium to high risk” due to the number of times their ships have been inspected or detained in the past three years.The media is also complicit.
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