The world needs places of refuge

ON MONDAY, newly elected International Salvage Union (ISU) president Leendert Muller told journalists in London that salvors strongly believed there must be progress on the issue of "places of refuge". These are sheltered coastal areas of water where salvors can take a ship in difficulties and carry out emergency repairs and cargo transfers.

Mr Muller said that taking a ship to a place of refuge "carries some risk of pollu…