PUTIN'S WAR: IS PORT OF IMMINGHAM EARNING ITS MONEY IN THE BLOOD OF UKRAINIAN PEOPLE?

                                                 

Crystalia - destined to reach Humber over Easter holiday (photo: vesselfinder.com)

AFTER Russian oil, Russian coal. . .

Just days after the port of  Immingham welcomed a cargo of Russian oil, it is now set to do the same for a shipment of Russian coal.

Currently sailing under the flag of Greece, the bulk carrier, Crystalia, is en route here from the Baltic port of Ust-Luga.

At a speed of 12.6 knots, the eight-year-old vessel is due here - courtesy of ABP Humber - at about 7pm on Monday.

The continuing readiness of ports such as Immingham to trade with Russia is to the despair of the Ukrainian people who have been dying in their tens of thousands as a result of Putin's cruelty.

Yesterday, Ukrainian president  Volodymyr Zelensky accused European countries that continue to buy Russian oil of "earning their money in other people's blood".

Sadly, Britain is one of those countries - and nowhere, it seems, is more tainted with spilled blood than Immingham.

The Grimsby News says: The continuing readiness of ABP Humber to accept consignments of Russian goods tarnished the reputation not just of the company and its management but also of Immingham. Its top brass have all seen the terrible images coming out of Mariupol and elsewhere. Where is their sense of morality? Do they not comprehend the difference between right and wrong? The same criticism can be levelled at the British Government - Boris Johnson, the lot of them - whose sanctions increasingly seem like little more than a gesture to appease public opinion. By the same token, why has Cleethorpes and Immingham MP Martin Vickers not spoken out? Why, too, the silence of North East Lincolnshire Council's leadership and the three ward councillors for the Immingham ward?  Never since 1939 has appeasement been so manifest. It is a collective failure of honour and integrity.  And it is shameful.