October 14, 2008
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Spill idles ships near New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Dozens of cargo ships, petrochemical tankers and smaller vessels stacked up Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between a barge and tanker spilled more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the shipping waterway.
The Coast Guard said reopening nearly 100 miles of river to ship traffic could take days, and efforts to clean up the oily sheen left by largest oil spill on the river since 2000 could take weeks.
Authorities were investigating why the tugboat towing the barge did not have a properly licensed pilot.
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