Paranagua Victory

After 19 hours our action came to an end in Paranagua as our activists prevented conventional soya being loaded onto the GE contaminated ship - 'Global Wind', the ship has left the port of Paranagua, Parana, Brazil without loading.

The Global Wind is known to carry about 30,000 tons of GE soya from the company, Bunge in Argentina, and was supposed to load another 10,000 tons of conventional soya from Bunge subsidiary Fertimport, in the GE free port of Paranagua. However thanks to our rapid reaction the ship failed again to load.

“Today we succeeded to keep Paraná’s soya free from deliberate GE contamination,” said Mariana Paoli. “But Bunge has not given any commitment yet to stop such deliberate contamination in the future.”

Paraná prohibits the growing and export of GE soya, and has imposed strict control to enforce this ban in its territory. Paraná is well-equipped to serve the increasing market demand for non-GE supply in light of growing consumer rejection and in light of new and stricter GE labelling regulation in major markets such as the enlarged European Union.

“The federal government has not yet taken any steps to prevent deliberate GE contamination,” said Mariana Paoli. “Greenpeace demands that Paraná’s efforts are support by the Government and the same measures are implemented all over Brazil.”

Find out More:

-Read our story: Global Winds has wind taken out of its sails

- Read our in-depth document about Soya

- Read our in-depth document: Hanging in the Balance: GE Battle in Brazil

- Find out about the Galateia sailing GE Free

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