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...disgrace" -- a statement corroborated, oddly enough, by the oil industry. A report by Shell Petroleum indicated that 20% of the world's oil fleet was suitable only for "the scrapyard." At the moment, the world's seaways are becoming scrap-yards. Even as politicians debated what to do, the Maersk Navigator, a Danish supertanker that collided with a ship near Sumatra two weeks ago, was still burning -- and still spewing...
...DRILL THAT HAS GROWN ALL TOO FAMILIAR, SALvage and fire-control specialists were rushed to the scene of a burning oil tanker, this time near the entrance to the Indian Ocean's Malaccan Strait. The Danish-owned Maersk Navigator, carrying 78 million gal. of light crude, had collided with an empty Japanese tanker, rupturing one of the loaded vessel's 12 tanks and setting it ablaze. Fortunately, most of the escaping oil quickly burned off or evaporated, calming fears of environmental damage to fishing waters and the coasts of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. By week's end emergency workers...
...England's Cornwall coast in 1967. The Metula dumped about 16 million gal. of Persian Gulf crude when it grounded in 1974 in the Strait of Magellan, polluting an area where Charles Darwin had gone ashore more than a century earlier to study animals and plants. The Jacob Maersk lost or burned some 26 million gal. when it exploded off Portugal...
...Working without government support, we must compete with flag preferences and subsidized companies-in reality with foreign governments. But we work hard, we watch our expenses and we try to give service second to none," MØller explains. The system works. This year Maersk ships represented half of the Danish merchant fleet's total ton nage of 4,000,000 tons...
...modest, retiring man, Maersk McKinney MØller credits his success to two things: his grandfather's star and his father's motto: "No detail is too small. No effort too great...