Greenpeace activists occupy the silos of the Cereol Italia soya processing facility in Ancona, in order to reject the importation of GE soya into Europe. Activists display protest banner reading, 'GE foods Don't Buy It'. The protest follows the action in the Adriatic Sea, near Venice, where the Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza, stopped the offloading of a ship carrying some 40,000 tons of GE soya from Argentina for four days. Greenpeace activists also closed Italy's main soya import facilities in Ravenna.