Dutch Dockers Refuse to Unload Ship with Russian Diesel Cargo; “Late last night we requested all parties in the port of Amsterdam not to let the ship dock and not to (handle) it,” the FNV trade union’s harbour worker branch chairwoman Asmae Hajjari said.
“The ship will not enter the Amsterdam port,” she added in a tweet. Dockworkers in Sweden had already turned away the tanker, after which it set course for the Netherlands.
“Russia is financing the war in Ukraine with the cargo,” the FNV union said in a statement thanking the Swedish workers for turning the ship away. Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra said Friday legally the Sunny Liger could not be refused entry into a Dutch port, but that he supported the dock workers’ actions.
