EU seeks to ban 66 alleged dangerous merchant vessels

The European Commission has published a blacklist of 66 allegedly dangerous merchant vessels, which it proposes should be banned from European waters, following the sinking of the Prestige off Spain.

Of the 66 ships on the list, 26 sail under a Turkish flag, 12 under the flag of the Caribbean nation of St Vincent and Grenadines, and nine under the Cambodian flag.