BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Union nations agreed Friday to ban single-hull tankers carrying heavy fuel in their waters, an effort to prevent disasters like the devastating oil spill off the coast of ...

Since then Maritrans has successfully rebuilt three similar size barges and is currently working on a fifth that includes a 60-ft. lengthening. Maritrans patented barge process was described in detail ...

Double-hull tankers have an outer layer of steel, normally about an inch thick and 6.5 feet from the inner one, that acts as a buffer in an accident. When tankers with one shell are ruptured, the only ...