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[email protected] - Web: www.cedre.fr Sea & Shore Technical Newsletter n°40 22001144---22 Contents • Spills ................................................................................................................................................. 2 Pollution in a port following failure of the dredger Prins IV (Port-Diélette, Manche, France) ............................ 2 Heavy fuel oil spill in a protected mangrove: collision of the Southern Star 7 (Bangladesh) ............................ 2 Heavy fuel oil spill in a port: the bulk carrier Lord Star (Brest, Brittany, France) ............................................... 5 Landslide and damage to the Tikhoretsk-Tuapse-2 pipeline (Black Sea, Russia) ............................................ 6 • Past spills ........................................................................................................................................ 7 Deepwater Horizon spill: BP agrees to pay out record-breaking compensation ............................................... 7 Environmental damages caused by the Exxon Valdez spill: an end to legal action for the US authorities ....... 7 • Review of spills having occurred worldwide in 2014 .................................................................. 7 Oil and HNS spills, all origins (Cedre analysis) ...............................................................................................