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A28 WORLD NEWS
Friday 26 June 2020
Report highlights risks for container ships in Wadden Sea

By MIKE CORDER work together to make a
Associated Press proposal to the Internation-
THE HAGUE, Netherlands al Maritime Organization
(AP) — A Dutch safety to safeguard the environ-
watchdog said Thursday mentally sensitive Wadden
that it is "undesirable" for area.
large container ships to use "The aim of this proposal
a shipping route through should be to minimize the
an environmentally sensi- loss of containers north of
tive, shallow sea off the the Wadden Islands and to
coast of the Netherlands, protect the Wadden area,"
Germany and Denmark in the Dutch report said. "This
heavy northwesterly storms may include measures for
because of the height- (a specific category of)
ened risk of them losing container ships, and if nec-
their cargo. essary alteration of the two
The conclusion came in a shipping routes north of the
report by the Dutch Safety Wadden Islands."
Board into the loss of hun- Bernd-Carsten Hiebing,
dreds of containers from a a lawmaker for German
ship, the MSC Zoe, on New Chancellor Angela Merkel's
Year's Day 2019, that led to Contents from shipping containers washed up on a beach in Ameland, Netherlands, Thursday center-right party in the
tons of cargo washing up Jan. 3, 2019. state of Lower Saxony, said
on nearby beaches. Associated Press the report highlighted the
"The lessons to be learned continued dangers of ship-
from this accident must re- the Safety Board report during a northwestern Wadden Sea, "large, wide ping. But he pushed back
sult in a better risk manage- said. storm," the board said. container ships make ex- against calls by the opposi-
ment of container transport There are two shipping In the days and weeks af- treme rolling movements," tion Green party for a ban
on the shipping routes," the routes north of the Wad- ter the incident, debris in- the board said in a state- on 'mega container ships,'
report said. den Islands — a southern cluding shoes, televisions, ment. It added that on saying it wouldn't help im-
The ship, carrying more passage, which is shallower lightbulbs and packaging the shallow southern ship- prove security for people
than 8,000 containers, was and closer to the islands, material washed up on nor- ping route there is a risk of and the environment.
sailing north of a chain and a northern route. The mally pristine beaches. The ships grounding and waves Instead, he said it would
of islands in the Wadden Zoe was using the southern Dutch government sent the forced upward putting ex- be better to consider more
Sea on a route from the route. armed forces to the region treme stress on lashing sys- closely which routes are
Portuguese port of Sines "The Dutch Safety Board to help in the cleanup op- tems used to hold contain- navigable by which types
to Bremerhaven, Germa- concludes that due to the eration and a salvage ship ers on board. and classes of ships. He
ny, when it was battered value of the Wadden area, fished sunken containers The safety board made a also backed stricter rules
by waves kicked up by a it is undesirable that these from the seabed. series of recommendations, for securing freight and the
northwesterly storm. It lost container ships choose the When slammed from the including that the govern- use of location transmit-
342 containers and 3,000 southern shipping route side by waves kicked up by ments of the Netherlands, ters for hazardous cargo
tons of cargo overboard, past the Wadden coast northwesterly storms in the Germany and Denmark containers.q
Pakistan's prime minister says

U.S. 'martyred' bin Laden

ing that Pakistan's partner- came here and killed him, by Pakistan's premier intel-
ship with the United States martyred him and ... used ligence agency, known by
in the war on terror was a abusive language against its acronym ISI.
mistake. us (and) did not inform us Pakistan denied the accu-
Khan also said Washington (of the raid), despite the sations, saying Washington
used abusive language fact that we lost 70,000 was blaming Pakistan for
against Pakistan, blaming people in war on terror," the failure of the U.S.-led
Islamabad for its failures in Khan told Parliament. coalition's 150,000 soldiers
neighboring Afghanistan Washington has repeat- to defeat the Taliban, who
and most of all — refused edly accused Pakistan of are now at their strongest
In this Nov. 9, 2019 file photo, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan
addresses during the inauguration ceremony of Gurdwara Dar- to tell Islamabad of its op- harboring the Afghan Tal- since being toppled in 2001
bar Sahib in Kartarpur, Pakistan. eration against bin Laden iban and giving safe haven and rule or hold sway in
Associated Press in 2011 before carrying out to the feared Haqqani net- about 50% of Afghanistan.
the Navy SEALs nighttime work, a Taliban affiliate that "The way we supported
By KATHY GANNON that reflected a subtle stab raid. The special operations has been blamed for some America in the war on ter-
Associated Press at Washington as it's mainly force swooped into Paki- major attacks in Afghani- ror, and the insults we had
Islamabad (AP) — Paki- used for honorable figures stan's military garrison town stan over the years and de- to face in return ... They
stan's prime minister said slain in battle. of Abbottabad in the mid- clared a terrorist group by blamed us for every fail-
on Thursday that the United Imran Khan delivered the dle of the night on May 2, the United States. U.S. Adm. ure in Afghanistan. They
States "martyred" the al- stab in a rambling budget 2011, killing bin Laden and Mike Mullen, former chair- openly held us responsible
Qaida leader and master- speech in parliament, at- several of his operatives. man of the Joint Chiefs of because they did not suc-
mind of the 9/11 attacks, tacking his predecessors' "We sided with the U.S. in Staff had claimed that the ceed in Afghanistan," Khan
Osama bin Laden, a term foreign policies and say- the War on Terror but they Haqqani network was run said.q