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Transport Canada > Marine Safety > Marine Safety Publications > TP 14315 E

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Executive Summary: The Impact of Regulations on Towing Vessel Safety; A Comparative Evaluation of Canadian and American West Coast Tug and Barge Operations is available in PDF format (file size 235 KB) which will download in approximately 1 minutes and 6 seconds on a 28.8 connection and may be viewed using Acrobat Reader (version 5.0 or higher). This reader is available free of charge. Please visit the Adobe’s web site where you can download the Acrobat Reader.

This study represents the views of the author and not necessarily the views of Transport Canada. To obtain the full report, please contact:

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