NEW ORLEANS - About 200 ships were stacked up today and more were expected to join them at a bottleneck along the Mississippi River caused by a massive spill of heavy fuel oil at New Orleans.
Crews had sopped up about 9,500 gallons of oil from the fast-flowing river by early today, a fraction of what was stored aboard a barge that split open early Wednesday in a collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara. The Coast Guard said it could take days to reopen the nation's bustling waterway to commerce.
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