Random ferry checks
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Your support makes all the difference.Cross-Channel ferries will be subject to random safety checks for the first time if proposals agreed by MEPs in Brussels are accepted by European Union governments. In the wake of the Estonia ferry disaster last month in which 900 people died, the European Parliament's transport committee voted overwhelmingly to add ferries to the vessels controlled by a new Port State Control directive.
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