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Cruise liners: demand for helipads dropped
(Financial Times)
January 5, 1999
By Charles Batchelor, Transport Correspondent
Plans to require all new cruise liners to be equipped with helicopter landing decks for use in emergencies have been dropped by the International Maritime Organisation, the United Nations' shipping agency.
The proposals were made after the sinking of the roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ferry Estonia in the Baltic in ...... Read more on Financial Times
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