On the Monday, the day after the drums had been unloaded in the harbour at Khasab, a small and moderately rusty cargo ship with an Egyptian name and with its home port at Alexandria, but registered in Valletta, Malta, was manoeuvred alongside the jetty at Khasab and began loading a mixed cargo of boxes of various sizes using its own crane as the harbour didn’t possess equipment of that type. Almost the last components to be lifted on board were the drums. These were loaded in fours onto wooden pallets, held in place with webbing straps and then craned onto the vessel.
The ship sailed late that same afternoon, heading north out of Khasab before turning south-east to head into the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.