Agri Eastern Cape says it is satisfied that the fourth shipment of livestock from the East London Harbour, was successfully loaded by Al Mawashi SA bound for Kuwait in the Middle East.
The president of Agri Eastern Cape, Doug Stern says they, together with the Eastern Cape Red Meat Producers Organisation, were onsite at the harbour this week and monitored the process from start to finish to ensure the correct procedures were followed at all times.
He says this included the loading of the approximately 57 000 sheep, 800 cattle, and 200 goats from the feedlot, the transportation to the harbour and the final loading onto the ship.
Stern says government vets and NSPCA inspectors were also present during the process.
He says the shipment and the process as a whole have been managed and will continue to be managed in a manner that exceeds the minimum internationally accepted standards.
"While the inspectors were cooperative, the senior members within the organisation were deliberately disruptive", Stern said.
He says the oversight of the animal handling and welfare of the animals was not the top priority of the NSPCA leadership who embarked on negative social media campaigns, using unrelated and outdated footage in an effort to slander the industry.
