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Silk Road Intelligencer: Tankers Set to Roam the Caspian

Aug 6, 2007

Tankers Set to Roam the Caspian

An interesting article discussing the oil traffic accross the Caspian published by the CACI Analyst on May 15.

"The Caspian is the birthplace of tankers; in 1877 the first tanker Zoroaster, built at Sweden’s Motala shipyard, began operating in Baku. Tankers now appear to be returning to the economics and politics of the Caspian. As international attention increasingly focuses on the vast energy reserves of the Caspian, a small but growing fleet of tankers is plying its waters in the absence of a definition division of its seabed, which precludes for the present the construction of proposed undersea pipelines..."

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