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Video. Maritime Safety: How vessel monitoring can help protect our waters

Updated: 28/09/2022 - 11:30 GMT+2

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The sinking of the oil tanker "Erika" off the French coast in 1999 is known as one of France's worst environmental catastrophes. Following the disaster, the E.U established the European Maritime Safety Agency which operates the vessel traffic monitoring system, SafeSeaNet. How does it protect us?

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