Exxon Valdez to Be Junked Years After Worst U.S. Ship Spill
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The Exxon Valdez has been sold for scrap 23 years after causing the worst tanker spill in U.S. history, which led to new designs for oil carriers.
Now called the Oriental Nicety, the vessel was sold for about $16 million, Maryland-based Global Marketing Systems Inc., the world’s biggest cash buyer of ships for demolition, said in a report March 16. Converted into an ore carrier in 2007, it changed owners and names four times since the 1989 accident, American Bureau of Shipping records show.