The Marshall Islands ship registry jumped on Saturday to the defence of a VLCC under its jurisdiction suspected by a Brazilian researcher of causing a massive oil spill in the Atlantic in July.
The 300,000-dwt Voyager I (built 2003) was identified as a possible source of the pollution in a 21 November public hearing in Brazil by Humberto Barbosa, coordinator of the Satellite Image Processing and Analysis Laboratory (Lapis) at the Federal University of Alagoas.
