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Article: Busier Baltic Sea struggles with pollution, safety; Russia plans to expand the port of Primorsk, further straining the waterway.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 23, 2003
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Byline: Colin Woodard Special to The Christian Science Monitor
TALLINN, ESTONIA -- A massive British luxury liner squeezes between a Portuguese passenger vessel and an enormous Estonian car ferry, with no more than 100 feet to spare. Near the harbor entrance, cargo ships pass to and fro, while out in the Gulf of Finland, tankers, ferries, and container ships clutter the horizon.
At peak hours, traffic at this Baltic port looks like a Jurassic-scale traffic jam.
The eastern Baltic Sea is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, where the oil and cargo traffic of St. Petersburg and western Russia cross paths with dozens of ferries linking ...