Tankers banned
ROME (Reuter) - Italy, determined to avoid a replay in southern Europe of the Shetland oil spill, joined France in banning its oil tankers from the Bonifacio straits between Corsica and Sardinia. Italy will ask the International Maritime Organisation to extend the ban to all ships carrying oil or dangerous substances.
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