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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9514
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport council

EU27 decide to create European long-range identification and tracking data centre

Luxembourg, 02/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - After an agreement of principle reached in June, the Transport Council adopted, on Tuesday 2 October, a resolution on creating a European long-range identification and tracking data centre (LRIT). The centre, which should be operational by 31 December 2008, could be housed by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon. It would be responsible for receiving data on goods carried by each ship going to European ports, at a distance of 1,000...

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