Tue 01 Jul, 2008
| Posted in: Greece's shipping ministry is tightening up safety measures after a 33-year-old NEL Lines passenger-vehicle ferry hit a reef off the Aegean island of Oinoussai on Saturday afternoon, writes Nigel Lowry in Athens.
The 19,000 gt Theofilos sustained a gash of nearly 20m below the waterline and listed two degrees, according to the Mytiline-based shipping line.