COPENHAGENRescue officials refloated a U.S. tanker on Jan. 9 that had ran aground off the east coast of Denmark by pumping some of its oil cargo into another vessel, according to the Danish navy said."It all went quite easily and smoothly. After having emptied it of about 1,700 tons of oil, three tugboats pulled for about an hour before it came free," lieutenant commander Helge Nilson at the Danish navy's operational command said.The Bahamas-registered single-hulled tanker Acushnet, built in 1981 and owned by the U.S. oil company Chevron, was traveling from Lithuania to the United States wi...
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