Single-hull tankers should not be allowed to sail in the Caspian Sea - Oleg Mitvol

Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Natural Resources, says single-hull tankers should be prohibited from sailing in the Caspian Sea, Interfax reports according to Gazeta.Ru. “If such a vessel enters the Mediterranean Sea, its captain is to be imprisoned immediately, though in Russia it is not prohibited somehow an nobody worries about it,” Mitvol told a press conference in Moscow. According to Mitvol, ecological situation in the region of the Caspian Sea is the issue permanently considered by RosPrirodNadzor. We have raised the issue at considerably high levels already, Mitvol underlines.