BANGKOK, Nov. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Greenpeace activists on Wednesday staged small-scale protest in a Thai harbor around a cargo ship loaded with genetically modified soybean, according to a local press report Thursday.

    Seven Greenpeace members wrote large anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) signs with white paint on each side of the pink hulk of a Argentina cargo ship, named MV Poseidon, which anchored on the sea of Thailand Gulf, some 120 kilometers southeast of Bangkok.

    The protesters, boarding on two inflatables, also spread banners reading anti-GMO slogans and set up a cordon of flags declaring "stop GMO dumping" in front of the ship.

    However, the ship's crew kept on their work of unloading. The ship was loaded with some 57,000 tonnes of soybean, which Greenpeace alleged were all genetically modified products.

    Thailand imported a large amount of genetically modified soybean from Argentina and the United States, said Varoonvarn Svangsopakul, genetic engineering campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.

    About six shipments of genetically modified soybean have arrived in Thailand in November, according to the Bangkok Post.

    Meanwhile, Greenpeace activist unfurled an anti-GMO banner on Nov. 6 on a giant billboard for a Nestle soya drink in downtown Bangkok, warning the Nestle product contained GMO. Enditem