A lot of questions about abandoned ships. The ILO maintains a database. The reason they do is because abandoned ships are often abandoned because unscrupulous owners don't want to pay the wages of the crew: https://www.ilo.org/dyn/seafarers/seafarersBrowse.list?p_lang=en
In so many cases, the crew remain on the ship for months after abandonment, at the mercy of humanitarian organisations (often the Mission to Seafarers), because if they leave the ship, they forfeit their wages.
In places where labour, shipping and environmental emissions are regulated, these ships are detained, their cargo is confiscated and sold to pay the wages of the abandoned crew.
In the Beirut case, pro bono lawyers got the abandoned crew off the ship. Under ordinary circumstances, the cargo would have been auctioned to pay the crew and costs of detention/cleanup/auctioning.
The cargo of the abandoned ship was 2700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. At around $500/tonne, that would been $1,350,000 which could have paid the unpaid crew, and did a lot more besides. Instead the stuff sat at the port without inspection for years.
That's not even a case of corruption or theft; that is a case of pure unadulterated incompetence.
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