GHOST SHIP: COLDIRETTI PUGLIA, FARMER PRESIDENT AT THE PORT OF BARI; AFTER CHECKS ON LOADING OF TURKISH WHEAT
According to circulating information, the ALMA ship had already been rejected by Tunisian ports
The farmers of Coldiretti are patrolling the port of Bari to the bitter end, after the police checks on the ‘ghost’ ship loaded with Turkish corn, following the boarding blitz in the open sea in the ship’s roadsteads. This was reported by Coldiretti Puglia after the Government’s action carried out checks on the Alma ship, flying the Maltese flag, with a load of 26 thousand tonnes of wheat of Turkish origin, which according to information circulated since last week had been rejected by Tunisia.
It is necessary to stop unfair imports by decisively introducing the principle of reciprocity to ensure that all products entering the Union respect the same standards from an environmental, health and labor standards point of view provided for in the internal market. An unfair competition that puts the health of citizens and the survival of agricultural businesses at risk.
The umpteenth Turkish auction concerns the export of over 75 thousand tons of wheat which will set sail around mid-June, with the tumble recorded in the last few months of wheat prices, while the comings and goings of merchant ships from Turkey continue in the Apulian ports, with a phenomenon that now seems unstoppable in the boom in wheat imports from non-EU countries of 800% from Turkey, over 1000% from Russia, 170% from Kazakhstan, in 2023 compared to the previous year, while only in the first 2 months In 2024, almost 35 million kilos of durum wheat were imported from Turkey, almost the same quantity recorded in the whole of 2022. But imports of durum wheat from Canada also grew by 47%, adds Coldiretti Puglia, treated with glyphosate, according to banned at a national level, which represents a serious danger to the health of citizens, starting from breastfeeding mothers, putting their children’s nutrition at risk.
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