Busy US Gulf ship lane closed due to oil spill
Miami (AFP) March 24, 2014 - A busy shipping lane to the port of Houston, Texas was closed Monday as clean up crews struggled to remove oil that spilled in a weekend barge crash. The barge loaded with a million gallons of tar-like "bunker" oil collided with a ship Saturday, and the US Coast Guard said that some 168,000 gallons of oil had spilled in the accident. Cleanup agencies deployed more than 69,000 feet of con ... more
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