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Cosco Busan operator guilty, faces $10M bill

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Aug. 13, 2009
The company operating the container ship that struck the Bay Bridge in November 2007 and spilled more than 53,000 gallons of oil into the bay pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of water pollution and falsifying documents and agreed to pay $10 million in fines...
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