NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Exxon Halts Barges, Tankers After Spill
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Exxon Corp. suspended all tanker and barge operations at its massive Bayway Refinery and Bayonne Terminal pending an investigation into the second major oil spill in three months in a busy waterway separating New York and New Jersey. Cleanup crews finished mopping up a spill of 3,500 gallons of heavy oil into the Arthur Kill waterway, and Capt. Robert North, Coast Guard captain of the Port of New York, reported there was “no free-floating oil seen anywhere in the harbor or in Arthur Kill.”
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