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April 10, 2014 by Martyn Lowe

There is new information about what the Atlantic Cartier had on board when it caught fire in Hamburg last year.

A news report in the HAMBURG taz dated April 3rd states: –

‘The Atlantic Cartier that caught fire May 1st, close to the opening of the 34th Evangelical Church Day, which had attracted thousands of people. (The first report said ‘one thousand’.)

Only two weeks later was the true situation revealed. It contained 3.8 tonnes of ammunition, 180 tons of explosive ethanol, as well as 8.9 tons of uranium hexafloride and eleven tons of unused, fresh uranium fuel rods.’

This is the first report which we have seen which mentions that the ship was carrying fresh uranium fuel rods.

In the middle of March another Atlantic Container Line (ACL) ship, the Atlantic Companion, was involved in an ‘accident’ at the Halifax, Nova Scotia, north-end Ceres terminal. On this occasion four containers of uranium hexafluoride were dropped while being loaded aboard the ship.

Bibby Reply

In reply to our recent open letter to Bibby Ship Management we received the following from the company:-

‘ It is Bibby Ship Management’s policy not to discuss individual vessels or cargo details however all of our vessels are managed and operated in line with the highest internationally agreed standards of vessel safety and pollution prevention.’

This is the full extent of the companies willingness to answer any of the many questions which we would like to put to them.