Four tons of foodstuffs were located on just one ready-to-be decommissioned freighter this week, with the quantities donated to the Orthodox Metropolitan of Piraeus (the local bishopric) for distribution to the area’s poor as well as the increasingly growing numbers of Mideast refugees stranded in the country.
The find has raised hopes that the remaining food stocks on all the vessels set for decommissioning and scrapping in the wider Piraeus area – Greece’s biggest port and industrial area – will be salvaged and funneled to charities.
The four tons of provisions, including hundreds of kilos of dried fish and meats, were taken from the vessel CMB Paule, after a local MP, Dimitris Kammenos, intervened with the vessel’s owners, Inchcape Shipping Services Hellas. Usually glacial state services also issued certificates within hours to allow the export of the food quantities and their distribution to the Church services.
The food will be served at the Piraeus’ bishopric’s soup kitchens, to the area’s homeless and refugees now camped at the port.
The goal is to expand the initiative.
