GEORGE TOWN: It is going to be a whale of an effort to salvage a ship that sank off the south of Penang island.
Along with barges and cranes, the ship’s owner has to give the state Marine Department a bank guarantee of RM1.5mil to cover clean-up costs if the salvaging works were to cause further pollution.
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