A company salvaging a sunken livestock carrier discovered secret decks allegedly used for transporting thousands of undocumented animals. The extra weight is likely what capsized the vessel.
Only 180 of the reported 14,600 sheep aboard the Jeddah-bound Queen Hind survived when the ship overturned near a Romanian port last November.
Salvage firm Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) first tried lifting the ship using a crane with a 1,350-ton weight limit, but the cables broke. With the proper amount of cargo on-board, the ship would only weigh an estimated 800 tons.
Upon further inspection, divers apparently found several sheep-laden decks not reported in the ship’s cargo plan, indicating that the vessel’s contents grossly exceeded its maximum carrying capacity.
“[This discovery] confirms our initial suspicion that the vessel capsized because of overloading,” Gabriel Paun of Animals International told the Guardian. “We are outraged that this came out from the company bringing the vessel back to the shore and not from the Romanian government itself.”
Several Romanian officials dismissed these claims. A representative from the National Veterinary and Food Safety Authority told Adevarul that dead sheep do not have the same weight as live ones, and the engineers did not take this into consideration.
GSP maintains that its staff properly calculated the ship’s estimated weight.
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This is yet another example of how incredibly greedy and immoral the companies that support this horrendous trade truly are…there is no inhumane low to which they will not stoop in order to line their pockets. They display TOTAL inhumanity to living creatures and exemplify the deserved descriptions of vile and evil. Their only regret may be that they have been caught out….disgraceful conduct and pathetic excuses. End the live trade, worldwide, NOW.
It appears that the money-grabbing, profiteering POS exporters do NOT give a damn about the innocent, voiceless animals that they so blatantly abuse and send on horrific journeys to countries where these animals will then be brutally and sadistically killed. Shame on these money-grabbing POS, may Karma visit them and repay them tenfold for the wanton cruelty and depravity that they allow to happen time after time. Its time to BAN ALL LIVE ANIMAL EXPORTS. If the vile, gut-wrenchingly cruel countries that receive these animals will not accept pre-packed meat, then let them go without, let them starve, after all it will be THEIR choice. Why should innocent, voiceless animals carry on suffering to satisfy money-grabbing exporters and blood-thirst, barbaric masses????
moche
Terrible, this needs to STOP!
horreur
Please stop this!
Please stop this!
While it’s so, so sad what those poor sheep endured and their end fate, at least the people responsible are being exposed. Now all we need is for this to be heavily policed so it doesn’t happen again! I really hope the perpetrators are penalised so harshly they won’t want to do this again!
horreur
THIS TRANSPORT PRACTICE IS CRIMINAL, PLAIN AND SIMPLE, AND SHOULD BE STOPPED AND PROHIBITED IMMEDIATELY. IT IS A CRIME AGAINST ANIMALS AND A CRIME AGAINST OUR HUMANITY.
horreur
THIS TRANSPORT PRACTICE IS CRIMINAL, PLAIN AND SIMPLE, AND SHOULD BE STOPPED AND PROHIBITED IMMEDIATELY. IT IS A CRIME AGAINST ANIMALS AND A CRIME AGAINST OUR HUMANITY.
Live animal export is cruel, pure and simple, stop shipping animals from the EU for slaughter >…. NOW!! Be humane … Be a Vegan!!
Live animal export is cruel, pure and simple, stop shipping animals from the EU for slaughter >…. NOW!! Be humane … Be a Vegan!!
Live animal export is cruel, pure and simple, stop shipping animals from the EU for slaughter >…. NOW!! Be humane … Be a Vegan!!
Greed and corruption are all that matters for the wicked and the weak minded. As for the Romanian officials, you might as well be walking mannequin .
I WISH WUHAN VIRUSE GETS 80% OF HUMAN RACE. MUCH BETTER FOE THE PLANET
Man’s greed and soulless cancer kill those precious lives. And the Romanian officials are turning a blind eye with all the corruption that their ugliness will allowed.
WHY? 🙁
Sad and outrageous
OMG!! Some people think that we own animals and they are ours to do whatever we want with them! That is NOT true! Animals are sentient beings with souls and the ability to love, fear, protect others (animals and humans) be courageous, show kindness and empathy, etc. They have lives just as important and precious as our lives are. This is a reason I’m a vegan. This is why I get so angry when I read these stories and sign these petitions. It’s the same way I get when I hear of serial or mass murderers or terrorism. Man’s inhumanity to humans and animals. It’s heartbreaking and maddening!
Get all the evidence to prove the case then take that ship out to sea and sink it.
im sorry lost sheeps sad I wont bring pets on ship not safe pray
SO DAMNED SAD AND SICKING HELP NOW
SO DAMNED SAD AND SICKING HELP NOW
horreur
So heartbreaking! I hate these evil people
Greed, it what causes animal abuse!
Live export must stop immediately. 😡😠🤬
horreur
ALL THIS DEATH OF INNOCENT ANIMALS FOR MONEY…DISGUSTING HATEFUL INGRATES…FIND THEM AND DROWN THEM. SO FED UP…
These death ships must be forbidden to put to sea.
GREED GREED nd MORE GREED is what keeps this vile industry going, the heads of everyone responsible for this atrocity MUST role over this if proved and LIVE EXPORTS ACROSS THE WORLD MUST STOP.
They would deny this CRIME. Greedy people!
Ecoeurant!
You know what is going to happen some one will buy it and they will torture it. Just like any thing is that is bought on craigs list.Craigs list should be put out of business closed down people get doggys then torture them that is proven
where is governments to protect life???
Live animal export is cruel, pure and simple,