CHAPTER 2: THE MV ‘FULL CITY’ INCIDENT – NORWAY’S WORST EVER OIL SPILL – JON SIGURD JACOBSEN
‘This [oil spill] happened close to our summer house. The day after we had bathed from a beautiful stony beach, it was covered with crude oil!’ – (Thor, 2009).
The MV Full City was a Panama registered bulk carrier with a gross tonnage of 15,873 tonnes. It was capable of taking a cargo weighing around 11,000 tonnes creating a deadweight tonnage of 26,758 tonnes. Built at Hakodate, Japan, it was completed in 1995, Chinese crewed and Chinese owned by the Roc Maritime Inc. It has twice made headline news. In 2011, it was attacked by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea although it was swiftly rescued by a combined United States, Turkish and Indian naval force. ...
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