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Retirement for floating rust buckets

2009-03-30 | Ships that pose risks could be blacklisted under maritime safety package approved by European parliament.

The new rules are designed to prevent a recurrence of disasters with oil spill, like the one in November 2002 when the oil tanker Prestige sank with 77 000 ton of heavy fuel, outside the coast of Spain.

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