RUSSIA OIL TANKER
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
2) An ageing, rusty Russian oil tanker has left Latvia, despite European protests. Spain and the European Commission, which have expressed grave fears about the single-hull Geroi Sevastopolya, had asked the Baltic state to halt its departure from the Ventspils port and immediately adopt an EU ban on such vessels.
2) An ageing, rusty Russian oil tanker has left Latvia, despite European protests. Spain and the European Commission, which have expressed grave fears about the single-hull Geroi Sevastopolya, had asked the Baltic state to halt its departure from the Ventspils port and immediately adopt an EU ban on such vessels.
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