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It brought home how vulnerable single-hulled tankers are, and it's still showing that spilled oil can persist in ecosystems for more than two decades.
How Far Will the Gulf Gusher Spread? Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer 2010
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They're banning those single-hulled tankers we hear,
Mike Ragogna: Oil and Music : Conversations With Steve Forbert and Tift Merritt 2010
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Ironically, too, 2015 will arrive long before the last of the toxic oil that spilled from the single-hulled Exxon Valdez is gone from our beaches -- and long before our herring even begin to recover. credit: 2009 Dave Janka.
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Most notable: Congress required the phaseout of single-hulled oil tankers.
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It's still single-hulled, and this year a Hong Kong company bought it to carry bulk ore.
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The Exxon Valdez remained a single-hulled Exxon oil tanker ferrying crude outside of the U.S., until earlier this year when it was sold to a Hong Kong company, which converted it to carry bulk ore, according to Ray Botto, a spokesman for Exxon's shipping subsidiary.
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It later reported that the Exxon Valdez was repaired, remained a single-hulled tanker, was renamed the Sea River Mediterranean, and was banned from Alaskan waters.
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It's still single-hulled, and this year a Hong Kong company bought it to carry bulk ore.
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It later reported that the Exxon Valdez was repaired, remained a single-hulled tanker, was renamed the Sea River Mediterranean, and was banned from Alaskan waters.
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With most of the port's fleet unable to comply with International Maritime Organization regulations, Singapore initially isn't implementing the rules and will instead phase out aging single-hull ships over a 25-year period, prohibit single-hulled tankers more than 25 years old, and prohibit any new single-hull tankers from entering the market.
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