18 dic 2013 año - DB seeks seizure of Rhosus

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"In December 2013, two maritime fuel oil suppliers – Bunkernet and Dan Bunkering – requested the seizure of the Rhosus, through the Lebanese law firm Baroudi & Associates, for about $300,000 in unpaid debts. But the firm was unable to get hold of the ship owner and his credi-tors dropped the case.

In the meantime, the firm repeatedly alerted the Lebanese authorities, including the director general of the transport ministry, Abdel Hafez el-Kaissi, to the dangerousness of the cargo on board, citing the example of the 1947 disaster in the US port of Texas City, when the fire of a cargo of ammonium nitrate on the Grandcamp ship caused 581 deaths and about 5,000 inju-ries."

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