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Shipping on the Danube should be suspended because of ice, experts say

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River monitoring experts have called for limiting shipping on the Danube and advised ship owners to stop shipping as ice drift in the Bulgarian stretch of the river has already reached 60 percent. According to Captain Ivan Zhekov, head of Maritime Administration in the city of Ruse, the situation along the whole river was severe.



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