Transportation
Toxic Waste Bound for Thailand on Maersk, MSC Cargo Vessels Set to Return to Europe
- Containers holding toxic dust now look to be headed to Italy
- Environmental groups sounded alarm on illegal waste shipments
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Shipping containers bound for Thailand allegedly filled with tons of hazardous industrial waste from Albania are now slated to return to Europe, after environmental groups sounded the alarm they were being illegally exported to Southeast Asia.
An A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S ship carrying 40 containers of the waste is due to arrive in Singapore tomorrow, and the suspect cargo will then be sent back to Italy, according to the marine cargo tracking website of MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, which will be transporting the shipment back to Europe.