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Article: THE BLACK SEA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DANGERS.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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SHIPPING across the crowded Black Sea should expand substantially this year. Export volumes may well show quite dramatic growth under the dual stimulus of the reopening of the Danube waterway in the West in a few months' time and the aggressive policy of the Russians in the East to claw back trade from the ports of their other ex-Soviet neighbours.
The result is a fever of intensifying freight transport infrastructure construction around the virtually enclosed Black Sea. Astonishingly, however, its vulnerable environment seems to be recovering.
Radu Minhea, a specialist spokesman for the recently established international Black Sea environmental ...