PRESTIGE INQUIRY – EP
February 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLSEAFARERS should not be made the legal scapegoats for maritime disasters, when onshore failures in training and management are often to blame, the European Parliament's inquiry into the sinking of the Prestige off Spain has been told. Eduardo Chagas, of the Maritime Transport Section of the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF), told the parliament's temporary committee on safety at sea that it was wrong, more than one year after the Prestige sank, that Captain Apostolos Mangouras was still under house arrest in Spain. "We believe this case ...
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