The lawlessness of international shipping may have played a role in the catastrophe.
set off a stockpile of fireworks, which then caused the more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at a nearby warehouse to explode. Based on the timeline, this is most likely the cargo taken off theOfficials who left this combustible mix sitting in a major city for years will certainly face calls for accountability. But part of the blame lies in a place where regulations and accountability are even weaker than modern-day Lebanon: the sea.
. According to Ben Bailey, director of advocacy for Mission to Seafarers, which advocates for sailors’ rights, “There are two very clear reasons why shipowners abandon their vessels. The first is simply down to economics. The business runs into trouble and they’re unable to make their payments. The second, which is related is when it is deliberate on the part of some owners: They just put seafarers down to the bottom of the list and think it’s easier to just not pay them.
—and will be held until the shipowner can make good, or until the maritime courts of the country where the ship is located get involved and auction it off, using some of the proceeds to pay the wages of the crew. But crew members can lose their rights to these wages if they abandon their vessel, leading to extreme cases like the
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