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A ship carrying 2 000 tonnes of fin whale meat has reportedly skipped the port of Durban after South Africans called on government to deny it entry.
Greenpeace says the cargo ship 'Alma' was sailing from Iceland en-route to Japan, and wanted to refuel in Durban.
Greenpeace Africa's executive director Michael O'Brien Onyeka says that over a three-day period, more than 21 000 South Africans joined Greenpeace in its request to the port authorities to deny entrance and service to the Alma.
He has called on the South African government to add pressure to other African ports to continue to deny services to the Alma when it reaches their shores.
Onyeka says the trade of endangered species is being met with international moral rejection.
