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The Al Kuwait, which has previously travelled with livestock from Brazil to Iraq before coming back to Fremantle has been allowed to berth with animal faeces from washdown to portside evident on the vessel exterior. An eagle-eyed vet spotted the manure slick and notified DAFF Biosecurity. Response? The ship was turned during the night with some attempt at cleaning the exterior IN FREMANTLE PORT. The normal response is to send a vessel back out to sea to thoroughly clean down before returning with re-inspection.
Dont worry about the live export ban farmers? Worry about biosecurity. This ship could potentially be carrying any number of exotic diseases. If the ship is immaculately clean on the inside, then possibly not such a concern. But if it isnt, then there is a possibility of stock handlers carrying disease on their boots from the ship to Australian soil and the possibility of sheep picking up disease (eg sheep pox from Iraq or FMD) on the ship, getting disease en route to destination, being rejected at destination port and a major biosecurity incident that could trash Australia's reputation and potentially cause a shut down of wool trade, meat trade, skin trade etc. Regardless, it should never have been cleaned down in Fremantle Port (ie on Australian soil) and port cam photos overnight show it did not have sufficient time to go out to sea and come back overnight. See photos below from 1st November with obvious slick and then ship turned around with less somewhat cleaned slick on 2 November. Not impressive DAFF!
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