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Loading and unloading the vessel each take over three hours. Eight trailers are loaded at one time using a "yard tractor train system". The vessel represented 19.6 percent of Marine Atlantic's fleet in 2005.
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was found in use on the vessel. Management made the decision to encapsulate the asbestos. In November 2007, 60 workers on
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which operates in Northern Europe. She was sold on 12 March 2010 and given her current name
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was credited with five years of efforts to secure the right for the crew to wear the
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in December 1990, and served two supply missions to the Persian Gulf during the
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Throughout her career, the vessel sailed under the names
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were told they should be tested for asbestos exposure.
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Souda
Ainaftis
Stena Line
Greece
Bahamas
Nassau
Hyundai Heavy Industries
Ulsan
South Korea
Call sign
IMO number
7528611
MMSI number
241053000
GT
NT
DWT
roll-on/roll-off
Marine Atlantic
North Sydney, Nova Scotia
Channel-Port aux Basques
Newfoundland
Canada
Hyundai Shipbuilding Company Limited
Stena Line
asbestos
United States Military Sealift Command
Gulf War
Neil Hillier

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