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Safety on the high seas faces scrutiny
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[Financial Times] - By Roger Blitz and Robert Wright Carnival Corp has had little hesitation in seeking to pin the blame for the Costa Concordia disaster on the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino. “The captain decided to enter into water he did not know in advance,” said
Man caught with traps says there were a hobby, not for catching birds
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[Plymouth Herald] - Robert Wright, aged 47, is on trial for allegedly causing suffering to five finches in an aviary at his home. He has admitted having the wild birds …ly but denied cruelty and having 11 cage traps and a net for the commission of a wildlife offence
Row over Eurotunnel plan to buy SeaFrance ships
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[Financial Times] - By Robert Wright in London and Hugh Carnegy in Paris The largest ferry operator on the key Dover Strait route between England and France has threatened to report Eurotunnel to the European Commission if its surprise plan to buy the ships of the
Shipping: hard astern
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[Financial Times] - By Robert Wright In May 2004, a queue of barges began forming in a windswept corner of the port of Antwerp. The terminals further up the channel were so busy handling an unexpected surge in imports from China that they had virtually no spare capacity.
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