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Big oil-slurping barge joins clean-up fleet at New Orleans PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 04 August 2008 13:25
Associated Press - July 31, 2008 3:24 PM ET

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A barge designed to slurp up large amounts of oily water has joined the Mississippi River cleanup fleet. It is stationed near the twisted wreckage of the barge from which hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spilled last week.
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Tugboat firm no stranger to spills PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 04 August 2008 13:21
Pilots underlicensed in several incidents
Saturday, August 02, 2008
By Jen DeGregorio


Last week was not the first time Harvey company DRD Towing played a role in an oil spill on the Mississippi River in New Orleans with an underlicensed pilot at the helm.

Four years ago, the firm staffed a tugboat called the Mr. Craig that lost control of a barge and punctured the Eagle Memphis, unleashing 2,100 gallons of crude oil from the ship's starboard fuel tank into the river near Algiers Point.
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