ROMANIAN SHIP REVIEW
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLROMANIA'S Ministry of Public Works, Transports and Housing has launched a seaworthiness review of all Romanian flagged ships, which it hopes will allow it to provisionally close its European Union accession negotiations regarding transport policy. The inquiry was sparked by the Prestige disaster off Spain and the resulting release of a blacklist by the European Commission of ships that had visited European Union ports with safety defects. Romania had two ships on this list, the "Alex C" and "Tania". As a result, the Romanian minister of Transports ...
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