A Danish ship carrying some of Syria's most dangerous chemical agents transferred them on Wednesday to an American cargo vessel equipped with special gear to neutralise them at sea, officials said. The operation was successfully completed in the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro, the Italian environment ministry said, after a series of delays in the internationally-backed plan to destroy the Damascus government's stock of chemical arms. The containers were transferred from the Danish vessel Ark Future, which had brought the agents from Syria, to the converted U.S. container ship Cape Ray. Cape Ray will sail them into the middle of the Mediterranean over the next few days and start turning them into a much less poisonous soup of chemicals, ready for disposal back on land, officials from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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