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Sandra Speares, London
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Jul 03, 2009 04:40 PM
INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organization (IMO) secretary-general Efthimios Mitropoulos has returned to the issue of maritime safety, saying that the number of lives lost at sea this year has already exceeded 800.
There had been no significant fall in the number of lives lost, with a “worryingly large number of reported marine casualties and accidents,” Mr Mitropoulos said.
Total lives lost in 2008 was 1,930, he told the opening session of...
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