Salvors Warn on STS Restrictions

Oil clean-up workers in the aftermath of the Prestige sinking.

Salvage operations involving the ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of cargo and bunkers from tankers and other vessels should be exempt from new controls proposed by Spain and Mexico and now under consideration by the International Maritime Organization''s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). The International Salvage Union (ISU) believes that the proposed ...

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