GCC AFFAIRS - Feb. 12 - Firm Refloats Oil Tanker.
Seraj Al Ali, managing director of White Seas Shipping and Supply
Co, says oil tanker Al Jazya 1 which sank off the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. coast in January January: see month. has been refloated and towed back to port. Al Ali says: "The Jazya
was refloated yesterday [Feb. 11]". He says the operation, which
took most of the day, was completed early on Feb. 12 morning when the
tanker was towed into port in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (ä`b thä`bē, zä–, dä–), Arab. Abu Zabi, sheikhdom (1995 pop. 928,360), c. , the UAE capital. (The
Honduras-flagged tanker sank in a shallow shipping lane near the Abu
Dhabi coast on Jan. 24 carrying more than 900 tonnes of heavy fuel.
Officials had said about 300 tonnes of oil leaked from the ship, but
said the slick See SLC. was swiftly contained.) On Feb. 10, a supply ship
carrying equipment for oil installations sank near Abu Dhabi, killing 1
crew member.
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