Ship Called 'Trump D' Moored in Ukraine brought 3x the amt of Ammonium Nitrate that blew up Beirut

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukrainian-port-has-ship-named-trump-d-with-10000-metric-tons-of-the-same-explosive-that-blew-up-beirut



Port authorities claimed the cargo, offloaded from ship TRUMP D, named after the U.S. president, is safe because it is in “big bags” just like those in Beirut.

Barbie Latza Nadeau
Correspondent-At-Large

Updated Aug. 07, 2020 10:20AM ET / Published Aug. 07, 2020 7:29AM ET

An American-owned cargo ship named after the president of the United States docked in a Ukrainian port has just offloaded 10,000 metric tons of the same chemical substance that nearly leveled the city of Beirut this week, according to the Liveuamap news source. The hangar in Lebanon only had 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, which caused catastrophic damage to the Lebanese capital.

Link to tweet

The ship docked in Ukraine, which was previously named Seabreeze before a Florida company registered as Pilin Fleet Management LLC purchased it in 2018, and renamed it Trump D, was registered by Marine Traffic tracking website in the Yuzhi port near Odessa on Friday.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has now ordered “relevant checks” on the storage condition of the substance, which is primarily used for agricultural fertilizer or high-powered explosives after port officials claimed it was safely stored in “big bags.”

Photos online suggest that the ammonium-nitrate powder was also stored in similar “big bags” in the port of Beirut when it detonated, likely sparked by a nearby fire Tuesday afternoon.

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From MarineTraffic.com:

[smirkymonkey]

1. Would you want to be on that ship?

[tanyev]

2. What does the D stand for? Debacle? Disaster?

[cstanleytech]

3. Dumb? Douchebag? Dick? Damned? Drunk? Drugged? Diseased?

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Demented.

[marble falls]

10. From the form in his future incarceration papers for his orange jump suit tag ....

"Name (last name first, first name initial next): Trump, D"

[magicarpet]

16. D DOTARD

[Mr. Evil]

17. Depraved.

[lostnfound]

24. Demonic. Destructive. Depressing. Nt

[gab13by13]

4. My guess is Donald.

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Typical. Ship flagged out of St. Kitts in the Caribbean so it's US owners can avoid taxes and

regulations for things like safety.

The D is for Deadbeat. Like it's namesake.

[underpants]

6. So it's a poop boat

Synthetic poop but it’s still Fitting.

[PatSeg]

8. At first when I saw "ship called Trump D"

I thought is was someone be snarky. Can't believe someone actually named a cargo ship after the man. If that's not tempting fate, I don't know what is. Then the fact that the ship was carrying ammonium nitrate made it read like The Onion. Trump and his supporters have effectively killed satire.

[marble falls]

11. Donnie Two Scoops thinks its a battleship.

[PatSeg]

13. Ha, ha, that did occur to me!

He'll never get a battleship named after him, instead he gets a fertilizer hauling cargo ship! Pretty appropriate.

[dalton99a]

27. +1

[DFW]

12. I remember the Beach Boys singing about this

We sailed on the ship Trump D
My grandfather and me
Around the Black Sea ports we did roam
Booze in a cup
Trying not to blow up
I fear in one piece I might not come home

So, grab enough for my bail
This is as bad as it gets
Get my ass to shore and let me fly home
That ship is a bomb
I want to see Mom
When that thing blows up
I wanna be home!

[PatSeg]

14. Wow, you came up with that fast!

[DFW]

25. With a ship named like that

It practically wrote itself. Took me less than 5 minutes.

[PatSeg]

26. 5 minutes?

It may have practically written itself, but it is still pretty impressive. You must think in verse!

[DFW]

28. Sometimes I do, I think

These were all written in less than half an hour:

I just get an idea and have to write it down fast, or else I forget just as quickly.

[PatSeg]

30. You're not only fast

You are prolific as well. Did you do the video too? These are really impressive and excellent song choices.

[DFW]

31. No, just the lyrics and guided the audio

The videos were done by a brilliant videographer called Don Caron. His "Parody Project" has done about 50 videos. We have collaborated on 10 or 12 of them. He did the audio on Mar-a-Lagoville and Act Naturally, too. The others were recorded by my "The Freedom Toast" project in Atlanta. I sometimes play on the songs, but only when I happen to be in Atlanta during recording sessions. Otherwise, I just write the lyrics and direct from afar, since I live in Germany.

[PatSeg]

33. There were some excellent vocals

and animation as well. A lot of talent went into those videos.

It must be surreal watching what all is happening here from so far away. Have you been in Germany long?

[DFW]

36. Last decade full time, and in Europe for much before that

TFT has a depth of great musical talent. Sinatra, George Benson, we can do them. And our current woman singer did brilliant versions of both Tammy Wynette and Petula Clark:

Those last two were both guest-written by my brother, by the way! He still lives in the States.

[PatSeg]

39. Whoa, she's incredible

Sounded just like Petula Clark and Tammy Wynette! What an amazing voice.

[DFW]

40. She did Cher, too

She's really special. We're lucky to have her.

[PatSeg]

47. Really?

Her Cher was wonderful as well. Thanks for sharing the videos with us. I shared some of them on Facebook.

[DFW]

48. Feel free to spread them around

We can use all the morale boosters we can find these days!

[PatSeg]

50. Will do

[MFGsunny]

19. NICE one! thanks. n/t

[malaise]

22. Nice

[JustGene]

29. Cool...

[classof56]

44. Good one!

[Illumination]

9. Oh great so this is a "thing" now? Who's behind this? US & Russia? Absolutely INSANE!

[GulfCoast66]

38. Fertilizer is insane?

[sarisataka]

43. This "thing" has been going on for decades

Ammonium nitrate has been widely used since at least WW2 as a fertilizer and the base for industrial explosives.

Large quantities have been moved by ships for a very long time. The original buyer of the shipment that became stranded in Beirut considered the 2700 tons to be a small order.

[Scruffy1]

15. Millions of tons are shipped every year.

In Minnesotathere is a huge distribtion center on the Mississippi south of Minneapolis where fertilizers are brought up the Mississipi by barge. Ammonium nitrate is safe as long as there is no big fire. It only becomes explosive at high temperatures. It seems in Beirut it was stored alongside fireworks.

[gristy]

18. It's not on the ship anymore. It's in the port.

Consider editing your OP title.

[Dennis Donovan]

23. Headline wouldn't fit - had to modify it

sorry...

[dewsgirl]

20. K and R

[sarisataka]

32. An alternate headline-

"Ship Delivers Large Cargo of Fertilizer to Agricultural Country"

Although I would suspect less people would click on that one.

[GopherGal]

35. Given the name of the ship...

I would expect another type of fertilizer to be involved

[sarisataka]

37. .

[moondust]

34. Yuzhne.

Next to Odessa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzhne

This could have Putin's fingerprints on it. Also in the region, in 2018 Russian boats intercepted three Ukrainian ships in the Kerch straight and closed access to the Sea of Azov where there are other Ukrainian ports. The ship that unloaded the ammonium nitrate in Beirut was owned by a Russian businessman and captained by a Russian who says he warned Putin regularly that it was a powder keg.

Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union for its fertile fields of wheat (implying the need for fertilizer).

[Sgent]

41. I was listening to a reporter on BBC

today who was talking with an expert in this stuff, and apparently the material in Beirut would no longer be allowed in international shipping channels as an agricultural product, but would be considered weapons grade.

I have no idea what the stuff is in Ukraine, but there are are different types with different amounts of nitrogen.

[Codeine]

42. Enormous quantities of ammonium nitrate are shipped

into ports all over the world on a daily basis. Carefully stored and properly monitored it’s perfectly safe and constitutes a normal part of global agriculture.

What an idiotic article.

[Dennis Donovan]

46. They sure are! All via ships named after Trump!

[fescuerescue]

45. I find it curious that the ship was just renamed to "Trump D" on June 25th of 2020

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:376842/mmsi:341823000/imo 143312/vessel:TRUMP_D

Former name was "Seabreeze"

I don't think there is anything to this story, except a weirdly named ship carrying an extremely common cargo.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

49. "American ship"?

It's not flying the U.S. flag, but the flag of Saint Kitts & Nevis. So, is it "American-owned"?

I guess it's no different than a U.S. citizen touring Europe with a Canadian flag on his backpack.