The EU list, cobbled together with help from all 25 member states, lists both cargo and passenger carriers from Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and Liberia as having inadequate systems for regulatory oversight on safety standards and bars them from flying to EU destinations.

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Some of the ferry's cargo of 50 lorries broke chains holding them down and as the load shifted the vessel began to list at 60 degrees in conditions described as the roughest for a decade.

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