"Greek dock workers will refuse to unload Israel's 'murderous cargo'", 8 July 2025

Dock workers at the port of Piraeus have said that they will refuse to unload the Ever Golden, a container ship carrying military-grade steel to Israel, when it arrives in Greece.

“We will not unload a single inch of this murderous cargo,” Enedep, the union of dock workers at Athens’s port city, said...

According to...Vessel Finder, the Ever Golden, which is Japanese-owned and sails under the flag of Panama... is expected to reach Piraeus on 14 July. Once it arrives there, its cargo is intended to be moved to another container ship, the Folk Dammam, and taken on to Israel...

...the Folk Dammam, was bought by Saudi Arabian operator Folk Maritime, which is owned by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), on 14 May...

According to BDS, the transshipment of military-grade steel was arranged when the vessel was called Vega Coligny and was sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands. On Tuesday...Marine Traffic placed the Folk Dammam at the port of Mundra on the west coast of India.

The Ever Golden...flies under the Panamanian flag and its operator, Evergreen Marine Corporation, is based in Taiwan.

“We call on activists and people in Greece and Saudi Arabia - as well as Japan, Panama, Taiwan and all coastal states - to pressure their authorities not to aid this (or any) illegal military transfers to genocidal Israel - and, instead, to stop it,” the BDS movement said...

Middle East Eye has asked Evergreen Marine Corporation and Folk Maritime for comment...