Arend Van Campen - Toxic Tanker

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Soort boek
Hardcover

When a rogue oil trader tried to save money on toxic waste treatment costs, he decided that dumping it in Ivory Coast would be more economic. He was wrong. What would have cost about half a million € eventually costs his company more than 300 million. What went wrong? How was this toxic waste accumulated? Who was involved? What kind of toxicity caused thousands of Ivorians to get sick and some of them die?<br /><br />Chris Monas is a marine cargo expeditor and oil blender who makes a lot of money for his Principals, an oil trading fi rm in Rotterdam. He is also paid handsomely. But when he is confronted with victims of the toxic cocktails he mixes, he has no other choice than to turn sides. He barely escapes an attempt to stop him, but he manages to survive. Injured, half dead, Chris comes up with a devious and dangerous scheme to prevent a next environmental and human disaster, but at what price?<br /><br />Toxic Tanker is a fast paced ecological thriller. It is a page-turner disclosing illegal ship to ship cargo transfers in open water and the onboard blending of toxic Gasoline components on board the vessel 'Probo Koala'.<br />