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AGEING BEGINS EARLY FOR DOUBLE-HULL CRUDE CARRIERS
(Shipping Times)
October 27, 1997
By David James
Remember the way doubts about the safety of double hull tankers were brushed aside by legislators stampeding to get the US Oil Pollution Act 1990 (OPA 90) on the statute books? There were plenty of voices raised about the dangers of explosions in the double hull spaces once such tankers started to get a bit old and frayed around the edges.
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