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...Another tanker alarm: one day last week the skipper of the Liberian-registered Harmonic, just arrived in New York harbor with a cargo of 25 million gal. of Libyan crude oil, put in an urgent call to the Coast Guard. Possibly the result of heavy storms encountered at sea, the ship had sprung a small leak, spilling about 300 gal. of oil into the waters of the harbor. That minispill was certainly the least of the tanker accidents that have occurred in U.S. waters since mid-December, but no one could say it would be the last...
...safety equipment. But it has done little to regulate foreign ships, many of which are registered in Liberia and Panama to avoid U.S. or European taxes, wage scales and expensive?hence profit-cutting?regulations on crews and equipment. Liberia, which has no natural harbor, has the world's largest tanker tonnage?with some of its ships American-owned. Such ships and their crews frequently fail to meet adequate safety standards. The Argo Merchant, for example, was involved in 18 "incidents"?including two previous groundings?before the Nantucket disaster. Her captain since June, Georgios Papadopoulos, 43, admitted at a hearing...
Environmentalists have used the accidents to call again for action to control the risks posed by oil carriers, and they are urging the U.S. to adopt stricter tanker regulations. Some charge that the Coast Guard has ample authority under the Ports and Waterways Safety Act of 1972 to upgrade the standards of foreign ships entering U.S. waters, and accuse the service of moving too slowly to use this power. "The Coast Guard has been almost negligent," claims Jeffrey Knight, legislative director for Friends of the Earth. "It has been since 1972, and that's a long time to twiddle your...
...principal factors in the loss at sea of loaded older tankers has been their sudden breakup because of their worn structures. In the recent past these accidents have happened principally to smaller ships. But now the first generation of VLCCs is nearly ten years old: the world is being serviced increasingly by gigantic ships that have entered the critical and dangerous period of tanker life...
...view that some strong form of control is desperately needed for the tanker industry. Since any international application of maritime rules is almost impossible, the controls should be unilaterally imposed...