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Mar 26, 2009 12:00 AM
A French court has imposed a €350,000 (US$472,300) fine on the owner and master of a Russian general cargo carrier accused of deliberately causing pollution off the French Normandy coast, reports Lloyds List .
The 1989-built, 4,966 gt Skulptor Anikushin , owned by St Petersburg-based North Western Fleet, was spotted by a French customs service helicopter last July heading north at the head of a 20 km oil slick.
The company's defence had...
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