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Investigation in Finland on a container with spare parts of tanks directed in Syria
It is unloaded in the port of Vuossari from a ship of Finnlines, company that has marked the presence of the cargo to the authorities
October 18, 2013
Finnish Customs have announced to have at the beginning carried to term a preliminary investigation started of this year on a cargo of spare parts of tanks on the trip by sea from Russia on Syria through Finland.
8th January a container, than according to loaded was directed in Syria, is unloaded in the port of Vuossari from the ship ro-ro Finnsun of the Finnlines company of the Neapolitan group Grimaldi. The container was resent in Finland on a ship of the same company because of irregularity found in the port of Antwerp. To Vuossari the customs inspectors of Helsinki had inspected the container with an expert of the Finnish army having assessed that the loaded one was constituted exactly by spare parts of tanks, shipment that last January - the Finnish customs administration has remembered - was forbidden on the base of the restrictive measures regarding Syria assumed from the Council of the European Union.
From part its Finnlines has emphasized not to have nothing to that to make with such shipment and to have in any case supported and assisted the customs authorities engaged in the controls and to continue to supply assistance. Moreover the company has evidenced that it has been the same Finnlines to signal of its initiative the presence of such container after the procedures of control carried out by the company during the transit of the container on board of the ship had revealed the nature of the cargo.
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