Europe is still an important supplier of arms to Yemen, despite attempts to ban their export after growing unease at the deaths and injuries. And now Saudi Arabia and UAE are producing arms locally with European help.
We translated this article, partly because it lifts the spirits, partly because there is an actual series of struggles going on in ports around the globe. Recently we saw a succesfull strike at the Piraeus port in Greece, which kicked off after a fatal work accident. Shortly after, agency dock workers in Liverpool went on wildcat strike over unpaid wages. One of the bottlenecks in the current supply-chain crunch are global ports – as decribed in an article by Sergio Bologna that we translated a few weeks back.
For the third time in under a year, a Saudi cargo ship headed for a French port this week on a suspected mission to collect weapons, prompting protests from NGOs who say French arms are being used to…
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Saudi vessel under legal challenge from activists leaves French port without arms
Rights groups had filed suits over cargo, which they said could be used in Yemen, saying it contravened UN arms treaty
The Bahri-Yanbu had been at anchor 25km from Le Havre, turning in circles since its expected arrival on Wednesday (AFP) Par Published date: Vendredi 10 mai 2019 - 07:55 | Last update: 1 année 10 mois ago
A Saudi vessel that had been due to load weapons in France left the port of Le Havre on Friday without its arms cargo and is now sailing towards Santander in Spain, according to ship tracking data and comments from a local French official to the Reuters news agency.