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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8597

3 December 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport/environment
Commission calls on Latvia not to accept Russian tanker Geroi Sevastopolya in its ports

Brussels, 02/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the European Commission sent a letter to Latvia inviting it to refuse access to its ports for the Russian oil tanker Geroi Sevastopolya. As revealed on Monday by Reuters, this single-hull tanker, 24 years of age, was chartered by an American oil company for the transport this month of 50,000 tonnes of heavy grade oil to Singapore, after having been fitted out in Latvia and taking the same route as that taken one year earlier by the Prestige...

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