TALLINN - Eleven countries bordering the Baltic Sea agreed yesterday to impose a ban within a year on the carriage of heavy fuel oil in single-hull tankers in the region.
"The (Baltic) heads of government... support a ban on the carriage of heavy grades of oil in single-hull tankers to and from all the ports of the Baltic Sea no later than 5 April 2005," said a statement issued following a meeting of the 11-nation Council of the Baltic Sea States
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