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40. An internal Trafigura email from a London-based
employee to colleagues including directors,
dated 28 December 2005 stated: “The PMI
product has 1500ppm Mercaptans, high Gums,
H2S [hydrogen sulphide], Cu Corrosion and low
Oxidation stability.” (rec# 7696 Yao Essaie Motto
& Others v Trafigura Limited and Trafigura Beheer
BV in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench
Division, Claim No. HQ06X03370).
41. Internal Trafigura email dated 1 February 2006
(rec# 10852 Yao Essaie Motto & Others v Trafigura
Limited and Trafigura Beheer BV in the High
Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Claim
No. HQ06X03370).
42. Internal Trafigura email dated 27 December
2005 (rec# 5893 Yao Essaie Motto & Others v
Trafigura Limited and Trafigura Beheer BV in the
High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division,
Claim No. HQ06X03370).
43. Internal email dated 27 December 2005 (rec#
5914, Yao Essaie Motto & Others v Trafigura
Limited and Trafigura Beheer BV in the High
Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Claim
No. HQ06X03370).
44. Internal Trafigura email from a London-based
employee to colleagues including directors, dated
28 December 2005 (rec# 7696 Yao Essaie
Motto & Others v Trafigura Limited and Trafigura
Beheer BV in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s
Bench Division, Claim No. HQ06X03370).
45. Internal Trafigura email from London-based employee
to colleagues including directors, dated
28 December 2005 (rec# 7696 Yao Essaie
Motto & Others v Trafigura Limited and Trafigura
Beheer BV in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s
Bench Division, Claim No. HQ06X03370).
46. “THE APPLICATION OF THE BASEL CONVENTION
TO HAZARDOUS WASTES AND OTHER WASTES
GENERATED ON BOARD SHIPS”, Secretariat of
the Basel Convention, 4 April 2011: “The driving
factor for gasoline is the fact that, for instance,
in Europe the maximum approved level of sulphur
in gasoline is 50ppm while in West Africa it
can be as high as 5000ppm or more”. Available
at www.basel.int/Implementation/LegalMatters/
Ships/tabid/2405/Default.aspx (accessed May
2012).
47. Reply (Trafigura Limited v British Broadcasting
Corporation in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s
Bench Division, Claim No. HQ09X02050)
served 20 November 2009, para 315: “…
caustic washing had previously been carried out
for Trafigura by the Fujairah Refinery Company
Limited in the United Arab Emirates and the first
consignment of the PMI naptha had been successfully
washed in January 2006.”
48. Meeting minutes of Al-Trabsa Technical Administration
Al-Skhirra 15 March 2006 (Rec#
13571 from application notice for claim No.
HQ06X03370 and others for the High Court of
Justice, Queen’s Bench Division).
See also Amnesty International English translation
of verdict on Trafigura Beheer BV, LJN
(National Case Law Number): BN2149, District
Court of Amsterdam, 13/846003-06 (PROMIS),
para 5.3.
49. Meeting minutes of Al-Trabsa Technical Administration
Al-Skhirra 15 March 2006 (Rec#
13571 from application notice for claim No.
HQ06X03370 and others for the High Court of
Justice, Queen’s Bench Division) : “damages occurred
to the employed such as suffocation”.
50. Meeting minutes of Al-Trabsa Technical Administration
Al-Skhirra 17 March 2006 (Rec#
13570 from application notice for claim No.
HQ06X03370 and others for the High Court of
Justice, Queen’s Bench Division).
51. Rapport de missions, Terminal Pétrolier de La
Skhira, Centre International des Technologies
de l’Environnement de Tunis, Ministère de
l’Environnement et du Développement Durable,
République Tunisienne, April 2006, p20 (rec#
13572).
52. Rapport de missions, Terminal Pétrolier de La
Skhira, Centre International des Technologies
de l’Environnement de Tunis, Ministère de
l’Environnement et du Développement Durable,
République Tunisienne, April 2006, p19, (rec#
13572).
53. Meeting minutes of Al-Trabsa Technical Administration
Al-Skhirra 15 March 2006 (rec#
13571 from application notice for claim No.
HQ06X03370 and others for the High Court of
Justice, Queen’s Bench Division).
54. Court of Amsterdam, 13/846003-06 (PROMIS),
para 5.4.
55. Internal Trafigura email also copying Claude
Dauphin dated 18 April 2006 (Yao Essaie Motto
& Others v Trafigura Limited and Trafigura Beheer
BV in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench
Division, Claim No. HQ06X03370).
56. International Commission of Inquiry on Toxic
Waste, 19 February 2007, para 2.1; Trafigura
Amended Defence 5 December 2008 (Yao
Essaie Motto and Others v Trafigura Limited
and Trafigura Beheer BV in the High Court of
Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Claim No.
HQ06X03370), para 50.2.
57. International Commission of Inquiry on Toxic
Waste, 19 February 2007, para 2.1.
58. Trafigura Amended Defence 5 December 2008
(Yao Essaie Motto and Others v Trafigura Limited
and Trafigura Beheer BV in the High Court of
Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Claim No.
HQ06X03370), para 50.9.
59. International Commission of Inquiry on Toxic
Waste, 19 February 2007, para 2.1.
60. Trafigura Amended Defence 5 December 2008
(Yao Essaie Motto and Others v Trafigura Limited
and Trafigura Beheer BV in the High Court of
Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Claim No.
HQ06X03370), para 50.1.
61. Trafigura Amended Defence 5 December 2008
(Yao Essaie Motto and Others v Trafigura Limited
and Trafigura Beheer BV in the High Court of
Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, Claim No.
HQ06X03370), para 47; Amnesty International
English translation of verdict on Trafigura Beheer
BV, LJN (National Case Law Number): BN2149,
District Court of Amsterdam, 13/846003-06
(PROMIS), para 5.1.
62. Amnesty International English translation of
verdict on Trafigura Beheer BV, LJN (National
Case Law Number): BN2149, District Court of
Amsterdam, 13/846003-06 (PROMIS), para 5.1.
63. Robin Des Bois, “Ship-breaking.com: Bulletins
of information and analysis on ship demolition”,
2012 available at www.robindesbois.org/english/shipbreaking/shipbreaking-2011.pdf
; see
also Trafigura “Probo Koala updates” available
at www.trafigura.com/our_news/probo_koala_
updates.aspx (accessed May 2012).
64. In an email from Trafigura to Univar dated 5 April
2006 Trafigura gave as the purpose for requiring
the caustic: “We are buying product from Pemex,
we charter our vessel and purchase caustic to
place and add to cargo tanks on-board.” (US Files).
65. Email from Trafigura to Univar employees dated
6 April 2006 (US Files).
66. Email from Univar employee to Trafigura dated 7
April 2006 (US Files).
67. Email from Univar employee to Trafigura dated 7
April 2006 (US Files).
68. Internal Trafigura emails dated 11 and 17 April
2006 (US Files).
69. An email from a Trafigura employee to other
Trafigura employees Chartering Tankers, BA
Operations, Houston Oil Operations and Athens
Staff dated 17 April 2006 (US Files).
70. Amnesty International English translation of
verdict on Trafigura Beheer BV, LJN (National
Case Law Number): BN2149, District Court of
Amsterdam, 13/846003-06 (PROMIS), para 5.6.
71. This information was collected by Greenpeace
Netherlands during evidence given during the
trial in the Dutch criminal proceedings against
Trafigura.
72. The Dutch Police have come to this conclusion
due to the difference of the content in the slop
tanks when the Probo Koala left the Gibraltar
Straits (493,868 cbm) and on its arrival in
Amsterdam (544,496 cbm) as seen in the oil
records book. Amnesty International English
translation of verdict on Trafigura Beheer BV, LJN
(National Case Law Number): BN2149, District
Court of Amsterdam, 13/846003-06 (PROMIS),
para 5.6 “En route to Amsterdam, the washing
of a shipment of naphtha was continued on
board the Probo Koala on 27 June 2006 during
which 23m 3 of caustic soda was used (xxi).”
73. Evidence produced in 2010 Dutch court case,
including map and documents.
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endnotes
74. Amnesty International English translation of
verdict on Trafigura Beheer BV, LJN (National
Case Law Number): BN2149, District Court of
Amsterdam, 13/846003-06 (PROMIS), para 5.5
and 5.6.
75. Amnesty International English translation of
verdict on Trafigura Beheer BV, LJN (National
Case Law Number): BN2149, District Court of
Amsterdam, 13/846003-06 (PROMIS), para 5.5
and 5.6.