In Nikolaevsk seaport in Ukraine, 2018, was kept overdue 3,200 tons of ammonium nitrate. In a warehouse in the port of Beirut this chemical was 450 tons less.
the presence of nitrate in Nikolaev announced in Facebook former Deputy head of the presidential administration and former head of the Crimean organization of the party of Yulia Tymoshenko Andriy Senchenko.
According to him, unusable nitrate was delivered to Nikolaev ship “Tuzla” September 18, 2018. The shipment arrived from Georgia. The environmental Inspectorate of the port refused to make saltpeter, and she remained lying in the port. This Senchenko believes that the goods still have to be on the 12th berth of the Nikolaev port.
fears Senchenko, “now, in light of what happened in Beirut, who and when was the last time you checked the storage conditions of these three thousand two hundred tons of the arrested “late” nitrate? They are stored in compliance with all safety standards? We have some uncle Bob decides there are doors to weld in the warehouse? Or maybe the nitrate already said the fate of “arrested oil”, which vanished from custody? Maybe this “late” nitrate has already been implemented on the territory of Ukraine and our farmers received low-quality fertilizer”?
At the same time the Nikolaev seaport August 6, posted on the website an official statement in which he said that ammonium nitrate was exported from the port in 2019.
“Indeed, in September 2018 the ship “Tuzla” arrived to Nikolaev sea port with a cargo of ammonium nitrate in big bags weighing 500 pounds, the statement says the port authority. – Ship unloading were carried out at berth No. 12 during the period from 19 to 21 September 2018 by the private stevedoring companies. Just unloaded from the ship 6422 big Bega nitrate ammonia total gross weight 3217,422 metric tons. Export the above consignment of ammonium nitrate from the territory of the Nikolaev sea port was completed in early 2019. Currently, the remains of the cargo of ammonium nitrate, which was unloaded from m/V “Tuzla”, in the port no.”
the port has posted on its website pictures of the 12th berth, which show that there are no packages there.
meanwhile, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said about the need to take measures for the handling of hazardous materials and instructed the Prime Minister Denis Shmyhalou to check the conditions of their storage.
