Arriving first week of November.
The bulk carrier 'Effy N' will arrive the ports of Lyttelton and Napier, New Zealand in first week of November 2009 with phosphates from occupied Western Sahara.
The Hong Kong flagged ship has a DWT of 55.000 tonnes, and IMO number 9509516.
The transport seems to have been done by Pacbasin:
For the eleventh year in a row, Western Sahara Resource Watch publishes a detailed, annual overview of the companies involved in the purchase of conflict phosphates from occupied Western Sahara.
The pressure is mounting on the New Zealand importers of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara. Today protesters in Christchurch erected roadblocks to stop trucks from transporting the conflict minerals into the local Ravensdown fertiliser factory.
While other companies internationally have managed to find alternative sources of phosphate - and in spite of a request of the New Zealand government that they do the same - the Kiwi fertilizer industry seems unwilling to drop its imports from occupied Western Sahara.
A Japanese-Canadian vessel that transported conflict phosphate from occupied Western Sahara was yesterday received by a floating protest in New Zealand.