Britain to help destroy Syria's chemical weapons Under the plan by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, chemicals will be transported from 12 storage sites to Latakia in Syria. Russia is providing armored trucks and other equipment to help transport them. The chemicals will then be loaded onto Danish and Norwegian ships and shipped to an Italian port, where the most toxic chemicals - including materials used to make mustard gas and sarin - will be transferred to a U.S. ship for destruction at sea. That ship - MV Cape Ray - is serving as the linchpin of the plan. The Cape Ray will have machinery that will neutralize the chemicals by mixing them with other chemicals and heated water. The complex and unprecedented operation to destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile was agreed at the UN after the confirmed use of chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on Aug 21, which the U.S. government says killed 1,400 people. Under the current plan, the most toxic chemicals are to be removed from the country by Dec 31. All other chemicals declared by Syria are to be removed from the country by Feb 5, with the exception of around 100 tons of isopropanol, which are to be destroyed in Syria by March 1. All chemicals are to be destroyed by June 30. However, Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, has warned there may be delays. The main road to the Latakia coast has been subjected to regular fighting.