SINGLE HULL TANKERS
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation has approved a significant tightening of its MARPOL convention regarding the phasing out of certain oil tankers, although it has postponed many formal decisions on the issue until a key meeting in December. Following political pressure - especially from the EU - IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee agreed to bring forward from 2005, from 2007 the phasing-out of 'category 1' tankers delivered before the MARPOL convention came in force in 1982. However, while there was wide support for an EU proposal ...
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