Ignoring the international standards of maritime transport of crude oil and
petroleum products could lead to the contamination of the Caspian Sea,
the head of Azerbaijan's State Maritime Administration, Gudrat Gurbanov, said
in Baku today at the conference of the Caspian states about oil pollution in
the Caspian.
According to Gurbanov, environmental pollution of the Caspian Sea is
bad for all the states, regardless of where exactly it occurs, Trend reports,
citing the press service of the Maritime Administration .
The main purpose of the conference is to provide its members with detailed
information about the standards defined by the International Maritime
Organization to protect the ecology of the Caspian Sea, he said.
The conference, organized by the Azerbaijani State Maritime Administration
and the International Maritime Organization, involves experts of the
International Maritime Organization, representatives of Kazakhstan,
Turkmenistan, Iran and Russia, the Milli Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan, the
Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of
Environment and Natural Resources, Transport, the State Border Service, the
State Oil Company and other organizations working at sea.
This is the third event organized by the Azerbaijan State Maritime
Administration in cooperation with the International Maritime Organization
for the prevention of marine pollution.
The conference will end on June 20.
