Mermaid hunter

Russian tanker giant Sovcomflot has sold the 650-passenger Astor (built 1987) for EUR 40.35m ($48.6m) to German KG (limited partnership) company Premicon.
Теперь у Совкомфлота остался Максим Горький

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London, Jan 18 -- A press report, dated today, states: Some passengers on passenger Oriana (69153 gt, built 1995), which left Southampton Jan 8 on a cruise, have reportedly come down with a stomach bug. Doctors have been treating some of the 1,700 passengers on board the vessel for the contagious norovirus, formerly called Norwalk Virus, it has been reported. The virus causes vomiting and diarrheoa. A spokesman for P&O Cruises said: "We have developed and implemented our extensive sanitisation programme on board to interrupt the spread of illness."