• Saudi Cargo Bahri Yambu docks in Genoa amid protests: "Ports closed to arms not to migrants"

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20 May 2019There was even a group of scouts in shorts and a handkerchief around the neck, together with associations, some exponents of parties - in particular of the Communist Party - in the procession organized by the Filt CGIL simultaneously with the garrison organized by the autonomous collective of port workers , this morning, against the arrival of the Cargo Bahri Yanbu ship, docked at about 6 in the port of Genoa, at the Gmt terminal.

Stop weapons for Saudi Arabia
The goal of the demonstrators, a hundred, was not to block the airport, but to prevent the activities of the ship carrying war material. "Stop arms trafficking, war on war" is the banner of the dockers.

"We don't want to be complicit in the war in Yemen"
"We want to report to national public opinion and not only that, as other dockers in Europe have already done, we will not become accomplices of what is happening in Yemen" the secretaries Filt CGIL Enrico Ascheri and Enrico Poggi explained in a note yesterday. A meeting with the prefect Fiamma Spena to investigate the situation is not excluded in the morning.



Operations suspended
Bahri Yambu's loading operations are currently stopped. A sort of 'negotiation' is underway between unions and terminal operators on the type of materials to be shipped and among them a particular type of generator that could be used for war purposes.

Hypothesis transfer to La Spezia
One of the hypotheses would be to transfer the material considered 'borderline' to the port of La Spezia by land, allowing instead the loading of the 'various goods' of a civil type, but a part of the workers of the Culmv is asking the union to continue the strike in any case to affirm the principle that the port of Genoa remains closed to arms ships.