Move to check ships' effect on environment
PUBLISHED : Friday, 07 April, 1995, 12:00am
UPDATED : Friday, 07 April, 1995, 12:00am
The Braer incident in 1993 (above) caused a large-scale oil spill, but emissions resulting from ship operations cause greater environmental damage. Det Norske Veritas is in the process of developing a new system which expresses numerically how environmentally-friendly a ship is.
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