THE BLACK SEA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DANGERS. From: Contemporary Review | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: Land, Thomas | COPYRIGHT 2001 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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....

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