Climate activists with small boats and climbing equipment managed to block a cruise vessel for six hours in the North Sea port of Kiel. The activists protested against the ship’s carbon emissions, as the police informed.
Namely, around 50 activists, with banners reading ‘Cruises kill climate’, delayed the Holland America Line-operated ‘Zuiderdam’, from departing the North Sea port of Kiel, on June 9.
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The ship managed to leave the port after six hours, heading to Copenhagen, as the police temporarily detained 46 activists, some of whom climbed onto the ship and onto a harbourside crane.
The activists said that they were protesting against the ‘catastrophic local and global consequences of cruises’. They also claimed that the crew was working under poor working conditions.
The activists group, called ‘Smash Cruiseshit’, also stated that heavy fuel-powered ‘cruise ships contribute to the heating of the planet’, while they alsogenerate soot particles that harm Arctic ice.