tons of industrial waste with its original destination Djibouti. The expedition was
organized by the Swiss company " Intercontract SA" and by the Italian company waste management
"Jelly Wax" . Environmentalists alerted immediately load the Embassy of Djibouti. The
waste were then diverted to Puerto Cabello in Venzuela , where local authorities did not allow
the ship to enter. Two years after the waste back to Italy via Syria . interviewed
the press about the case, Gianfranco Ambrosini , represented the company " Intercontract SA"
admitted that in the small African country there was a place prepared for the discharge of
waste . How was it possible to deposit millions of tons of hazardous waste in a country so
small desert ? The answer may be that Djibouti has never been considered the last
stop on the route of export of waste. The former French colony was an important center
logistics for the delivery of goods to Somalia and Ethiopia. The waste may have followed the
the same process .
b ) Akbay -1
The ship loaded with over 800 tons of industrial waste leaves Marina di Carrara April 17
1987, and comes in Sulina , Romania on April 26. The load consisted of manufacturing residues , of
dry cleaning , drain oil , pesticides, and isocyanates from different companies .
The Akbay 1 was part of a fleet of ships carrying toxic waste that had
left the port of Marina di Carrara and Chioggia to reach the port of Sulina in Romania.
The waste had been collected by the Italian companies Sirteco Ltd. Agrate Brianza ( Milan) and
Ecological Industrial Platform (IEP) of Marghera (Venice) . It seems that firms have taken
the way for the transport of waste in Romania opened by an obscure English intermediary , the
Metrode Ltd , which had a representative based in Viganello ( Lugano ), Switzerland, and by a Swiss company , the Eldip SA , which had as its sole director 's lawyer Lugano
Cesare Forni.
The Metrode Ldt Eldip SA and arranging the shipment of more than 9,000 tons of waste
industrial northern Italy at a cost of about 7 million French francs.
c ) Radhost
In June 1987, the ship set sail from Marina di Carrara Radhost carrying more than 2400
tons of industrial waste collected by the "Jelly Wax" . The ship would have to reach the
" Lynx" to unload its cargo in Venezuela, where the waste would
occupied by a local firm belonging to one airline of Panama. Renato Pent ,
owner of " Jelly Wax " was part of the directory of " Ileadil CA ." But the two
Shipments come under the crosshairs of the media and the Venezuelan authorities ordering the return
of waste discharged by the " Lynx" and do not allow the " Radhost " to enter the harbor. three months
after the delivery of its toxic cargo ship at the port of Beirut in Lebanon , under the responsibility
Lebanese intermediaries corrupted by "Jelly Wax" and in exchange for money with cover - it seems
- The " Lebanese Forces " , a military group involved in the Lebanese civil war .
The public outcry that followed the news about the operation from the media forced the
Italian government to take care of the waste. Operation " return to sender " was organized
by the company for waste management " Monteco " branch of the chemical giant Montedison. The fact that
part of the waste dumped in Beirut came from different factories Montedison not
involved the Italian authorities.
d) Jolly Red
The collection and waste loading on the ship " Jolly Red" organized by Monteco for
bring them back to Italy took place without any collaboration between Italians and the official committee
Lebanese experts created to oversee the operations . Italians were in a hurry ,
using as an excuse the concern for anger that generated the use of the port. the authorities
Lebanese ordered that the ship's departure was delayed until the arrival of an authorization
by the Ministry of Health and that this is not sailed before it was drawn up
document of the Ministry of Health and the Committee of Experts with the Lebanese which was
confirmed the departure of all waste . Italians gave no heed to the demands of the government
Lebanese and the ship left Beirut without the authorization of the Ministry of Health and without cards
Validation of the Lebanese Committee .
The Jolly Rosso left Beirut on January 11, 1989, more than 9500 barrels on board. A few days
after he reached the Italian port of La Spezia , where he remained until April pending
authorization of the Italian authorities to unload its cargo . Satisfied with the Italian government
issued a statement in which he said that all the waste dumped in Lebanon had returned .
e) Cunski , Yvonne A, Voriais Sporadais
Shortly after the start of the Jolly Rosso , Lebanon begins to suspect that not all waste
originally deposited by Radhost - 15800 barrels - were reported aboard the Jolly
Red . No less alarming was the mysterious disappearance of the three other ships - apparently also
charge of this waste - which had come into the harbor following the Jolly Red: Yvonne A,
the Cunsky , and Voriais Sporadais . The media announced that the ships were all sunk
or , at least , had unloaded the cargo overboard . A report by the General Assembly of the United Nations gave credibility to these rumors that a large portion of the
waste was discharged into the sea adding that two ships that were not identified in the
Port of Beirut - presumably the Cunsky and Voriais Sporadais - had arranged to
load of a third ship, the Yvonne A, flagged Sri Lanka , destined to be
deliberately " sunk with its cargo in the Mediterranean after leaving the harbor ."
In 1989, a journalist of Famagusta , Cyprus , told Greenpeace had intercepted a
radio conversation between the captain of an unidentified ship that had left the port of
Beirut and the " Voriais Sporadais ." The two captains were arguing about what was the best
where to download the waste were between 40 and 50 kilometers east of Paphos, between the
Lebanon and Cyprus.
The Monteco and the Italian authorities denied emphatically that no waste had been left in
Lebanon. The Monteco also denied that he had hired the three mysterious ships to bring back to Italy
part of the waste and other materials that were not able to get aboard the Jolly Rosso.
The three ghost ships suddenly disappeared only to reappear 15 years later in the revelations of the
repentant Italian Francesco Fonti.
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