News / Damaged bulker Ruby can finally unload volatile cargo, at UK's Gt Yarmouth port

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Malta-flagged MV Ruby, the crippled bulk carrier with 20,000 tonnes of Russian ammonium nitrate aboard, has been granted refuge at the UK port of Great Yarmouth, after a long and fraught time at sea.

The distressed vessel has been turned away by various ports and the safe haven in the UK avoids a potentially perilous onward journey through the Strait of Gibraltar and Mediterranean.

Not long after leaving the Russian port of Kandalaksha, Ruby was caught in ...