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Prestige Anniversary

The ISU president urges governments to focus on salvage for spill prevention. EU Members and coastal states worldwide are in danger of “losing the plot” over the response to the Prestige spill, according to the International Salvage Union (ISU). In a statement to mark the first anniversary of the loss of the tanker off the Spanish coast, ISU President Joop Timmermans said:

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