2024-02-21T05:14:34+00:00
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/ Port officials spoke about a foul smell that invaded the tourist city of Cape Town in South Africa with the docking of a ship loaded with thousands of disgusting-smelling cattle. The ship continued its journey to Iraq later on Tuesday night.
The ship, which had set sail from Brazil and was carrying about 19,000 head of cattle, docked in Cape Town, causing a foul odor in the city centre.
A Reuters witness said some residents thought there was a leak in a nearby sewer network or that what they were smelling was a smell emanating from sewage problems in homes.
But a local council member confirmed that the smell did indeed come from the ship, called the Kuwait, which was boarded by inspectors from the National Council for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as soon as it arrived on Sunday evening.
In turn, the port operator Transnet reported that according to the latest statement from the ship’s agent and the terminal operator, the ship was scheduled to leave yesterday.
The company added in a statement that “the ship docked to obtain animal feed, stock up on supplies, and conduct medical examinations on the cows.”
The National Council called the ship the “Kuwaiti Death Ship” and attributed the smell to the horrific conditions in which the livestock live after spending two and a half weeks at sea, with the accumulation of dung and ammonia gas.
“The dung that the cattle were standing on was already up to the tops of their hooves in some pens,” Grace Le Grange, a senior inspector who boarded the ship, told Reuters.
She said that in general, the cattle were not in poor physical condition in terms of weight, but what was worrying was what happened when they returned to the ocean.