Nobody saw her coming. Not even satellites. The transponders that were supposed to signal it to the other side of the Universe were strictly turned off. I turned it back on almost by mistake close to the Saras, a reverent homage to the "oil god". After all, the route is exactly that of black gold. This time, however, on that ship, with the indecipherable hieroglyphics of Arabia, there is something else entirely. The mission is covered like few others. When the offshore telegraph makes the first radio communications towards the mainland you have the immediate perception that something is about to happen in the Gulf of Angels.
Fake technical stop
The “vergato” just written is ambiguous: technical stop at Porto Canale in Cagliari. In reality, the commander had had the mooring coordinates with him for some time and knew perfectly well where to dock that giant of the seas. The first sun had already cast its dawn on the lagoon, the salt of Santa Gilla had already been white for a while when, with the indifference of a deflated dinghy, the gigantic blue ship plows through the funnel of the former Container Terminal escorted like never before by pilots and tugs. They would have wanted to hide it, along with its cargo. The ropes, in fact, hook it to the end of the port, in the busiest dock, the bulk dock, despite the fact that they have no durum wheat stowed on board.
Ship of death
The "Arabic" writing stands out on a 220 meter long side, as an indelible mark of a foreign power that has just landed on the land of Sardinia: Bahri Jedda. The symbol printed on the flag that beats on the breeze of Macchiareddu, for professionals, is an indelible mark: Saudi Arabia. Not just a commercial company, but rather an imposing fleet of state ships destined for the most disturbing of traffics: those of death. The justifications for that sudden docking multiply, from refueling to checking for anomalies on board. The first documents that end up in our hands, however, tell a completely different story. Not just any ship, not a provenance like others, not a load of twigs.
